How would you tighten this week’s Challenge Sentence? “The important thing to remember is that the analytics can be…” Continue reading
Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 52 [writing/editing game]
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Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 51 [writing/editing game]
How would you tighten this week’s Challenge Sentence? “An opportunity to scan for active voice should be taken as an opportunity to root out implicit bias toward…” Continue reading
Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 50 [writing/editing game]
This week marks our semicentsentencial—half of a hundred sentences—celebration. How would you tighten this week’s Challenge Sentence? “I spent the school year in Austria in 1975–76 at ages…” Continue reading
Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 49 [writing/editing game]
How would you tighten this week’s Challenge Sentence? “To monitor the potential impacts, [Company] carried out monitoring of benthic communities, including baseline surveys prior to…” Continue reading
Grammar Girl Posts My Take on “It”—An Easy Fix to a Devilishly Common Writing Problem
This essay describes a fix to a common problem: unmindful use of the little word “it.” It—the essay, not the little word—will make you a stronger writer. Continue reading
Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 48 [writing/editing game]
How would you tighten this week’s Challenge Sentence? “Mapping keywords to steps in the buyer’s journey makes SEO more important in ongoing marketing initiatives and also shows leadership that…”
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Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 47 [writing/editing game]
How would you tighten this week’s Challenge Sentence? “When the do-hickey input is connected through external whatz-its that, when opened, whatz-itize the neutral or when…” Continue reading
How Global Is Your English? 8 Ways to Keep It Simple—And Save Big
Global English techniques are based on evidence—on the experiences of translators and nonnative speakers. Here are some techniques that you can use right away to make your text more readable around the world whether or not it gets translated. Continue reading
Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 46 [writing/editing game]
Come play the weekly concise-writing game, Tighten This! How would you tighten this week’s sentence?
Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 45 [writing/editing game]
Come play the weekly concise-writing game, Tighten This! How would you tighten this week’s sentence?