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Writing & Grammar Workshop: Converting Empty Phrases to Gold

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Empty words and phrases, such as the ones in bold in the preceding sentence, delay giving your readers the information they want, create a boring tone, and make your material seem vague and difficult. For example, my first sentence could have been Empty phrases decrease the reader's interest in your topic.

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Writing & Grammar Workshop: Acronyms Happen

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Yet they can be a barrier to a reader who is trying to absorb technical information or to a learner who is encountering new terms for the first time. For example, in web design the abbreviation CSS is used more often than the name it stands for, Cascading Style Sheets. Third , use the same method to define every acronym.

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Grammar Workshop: i.e. versus e.g. and such as versus like

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by Jennie Ruby Interrupting a sentence to explain a term or give examples of a concept is a way to get your reader to see immediately how the new information relates to the real world. e.g. = for example. such as introduces a list of some of, but not all of, the examples of your topic. incomplete list of examples"].

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Writing and Grammar: List Lovers Unite!

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They do not read my handouts during classes. For example, one of my colleagues tells me that if she needs the answers to three questions she is sending by email, she makes sure to mention that there are three questions and to put each question in a separate paragraph (or bullet point). They do not read paragraphs of text on websites.

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Writing & Grammar: Less than or Fewer?

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Here are some examples with money: She gave the clerk less than $50. I hope this information means you can spend fewer minutes thinking about this question and thus waste less time! If so, consider attending my Writing Effective eLearning Voiceover Scripts class. The movie lasted less than 2 hours.

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Writing and Grammar: Responses from United List Lovers

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For example,  Josie Chaney  writes: I agree with you whole-heartedly. I also don't like the repetition of information much; I've seen whole presentations which seem just to repeat buzz-word bullet points and leave crucial questions unanswered.   We have to learn to do better and lead by example).

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Writing & Grammar Workshop: More on Funny. or Not

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" My comment that use of humor might make learners take your material less seriously was pooh-poohed by one reader, who said that use of jokes in a key-note speech, for example, "never has us leaving the auditorium feeling that we can't take the speaker seriously." Click here  to learn more.

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