I am offering a special deal. If you send me your writing, I will give comments for free. The condition is that I would like to give the comments publicly in an anonymous video format.
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Qualification or disqualification?
I said earlier that some degrees are disqualifications. What does this mean?
Continue reading “Qualification or disqualification?”Education or degree?
Some serious jobs require degrees or similar qualifications, whereas other equally skilled jobs don’t require anything. This dichotomy interests me.
Continue reading “Education or degree?”Thanks for your support; open for questions
This 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 little writing instruction they receive from school and university.
Continue reading “Thanks for your support; open for questions”More commonly misused words
I 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 common ones.
Continue reading “More commonly misused words”Problems with normal teaching 1: assignments
One 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.
Continue reading “Problems with normal teaching 1: assignments”You’re probably using “likely” incorrectly
Climate 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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