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Hello world!
Read More: Hello world!Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
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Avoid clichéd character tricks
Read More: Avoid clichéd character tricksWriting compelling characters is not easy. Being good at it demands a deep understanding of people. One develops that through a mixture of interest, observational skill, and puzzle-solving, all of which take time to learn. It’s particularly unlikely that one will develop such understanding from a book.
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Ego defence
Read More: Ego defenceMaybe the most harmful aspect of ego is ego-defence. This is called resistance in psychological textbooks.
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Writing tip: Keep your ego out of it
Read More: Writing tip: Keep your ego out of itEnglish teachers usually equate competence in English with quality in writing. Yet even perfect English can still be bad writing.
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Qualification or disqualification?
Read More: Qualification or disqualification?I said earlier that some degrees are disqualifications. What does this mean?
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Education or degree?
Read More: Education or degree?Some serious jobs require degrees or similar qualifications, whereas other equally skilled jobs don’t require anything. This dichotomy interests me.
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Thanks for your support; open for questions
Read More: Thanks for your support; open for questionsThis blog and website are approximately one month old. After my first advertising campaign, I received hundreds of likes on the Facebook page. I am very grateful for and encouraged by that response. I believe this confirms the essential premise of the service I am offering. A lot of people seem very unhappy with what…
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More commonly misused words
Read More: More commonly misused wordsI once stated to a colleague that I didn’t want to become typecast as an editing teacher, yet here I am talking about it again. I plan to cover many other writing themes as well. Yet wordcraft comprises the bulk of writing errors, also these are the easiest to fix. Here I will discuss three…
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Problems with normal teaching 1: assignments
Read More: Problems with normal teaching 1: assignmentsOne of the main problems with formal writing courses is the assignments. Even if we pretend that they were designed carefully, they may still not be very educational.
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You’re probably using “likely” incorrectly
Read More: You’re probably using “likely” incorrectlyClimate change: Threshold for dangerous warming will likely be crossed between 2027-2042. Science Daily headline, 21 December 2020. We commonly see this kind of misusage. It has become so standard that the correct form is seldom seen these days. However, this usage is incorrect.
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Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
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Avoid clichéd character tricks
Writing compelling characters is not easy. Being good at it demands a deep understanding of people. One develops that through a mixture of interest, observational skill, and puzzle-solving, all of which take time to learn. It’s particularly unlikely that one will develop such understanding from a book.
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Ego defence
Maybe the most harmful aspect of ego is ego-defence. This is called resistance in psychological textbooks.
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