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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | I CAME, I SAW, I LEARNED MARCH 3, 2011 Writing & Grammar Workshop: Confusing Pairs Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script? If so, consider attending Jennie's Writing Effective eLearning Voiceover Scripts class. Jennie also teaches the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts and the Complete Review of Grammar class. by Jennie Ruby If you have been confused by the use of the word inflammable , you are not alone. The trouble is the prefix "in-." " Something that is inflammable is capable of being in flames. | I CAME, I SAW, I LEARNED FEBRUARY 18, 2011 Writing & Grammar Workshop: Would vs. Will In training documents and manuals, we often have to tell the reader what will (or would) happen if they do (or did) a certain action. If you press cancel, the document will not be saved. If you pressed cancel, the document would not be saved. The past tense in the if clause means something like "If you pressed cancel (which I do not expect you to do) the document would not be saved (but I don't think that will happen, because I am strongly implying that you should not press cancel). | | | | | |
| I CAME, I SAW, I LEARNED JANUARY 27, 2011 Writing & Grammar Workshop: Who is Who (or is it Whom?) Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script? If so, consider attending my Writing Effective eLearning Voiceover Scripts class. also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class. by Jennie Ruby. Who's Who books do have their grammar right. The proper usage is Who is who. But wait, you might be thinking, just last week , Jennie, you were telling us that we use who as the subject and whom as the object. Isn't the second who in Who is Who an object? Writing & Grammar | I CAME, I SAW, I LEARNED JANUARY 9, 2011 Writing & Grammar Workshop: Happy New Year! (or is it New Year's?) Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script? If so, consider attending my Writing Effective eLearning Voiceover Scripts class. also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class. by Jennie Ruby. New Year's Day is the proper noun naming the day we celebrate the new year. That is why it is always capitalized. New Year's Eve is the night before, when all the partying really takes place. " If you are putting the s on New Year, you must use the apostrophe. Writing & Grammar | I CAME, I SAW, I LEARNED DECEMBER 8, 2010 Writing & Grammar Workshop: Is It Website or Web Site? Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script? If so, consider attending my Writing Effective eLearning Voiceover Scripts class. also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class. by Jennie Ruby. And the AP--as editors affectionately call the style guide--has also released an AP Stylebook application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Having a major style guide declare website the official spelling gives editors an additional argument for the fresher spelling. | I CAME, I SAW, I LEARNED DECEMBER 16, 2010 Writing & Grammar Workshop: Converting Empty Phrases to Gold Strangely, these wordy phrases tend to pop up in the first sentence of an article or training document, right where you need to be grabbing the reader's attention and holding it. Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script? If so, consider attending my Writing Effective eLearning Voiceover Scripts class. also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class. by Jennie Ruby. Then say those things instead. Let's try that on another example. Writing & Grammar | | | | | | | |
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I CAME, I SAW, I LEARNED | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2011 Writing & Grammar Workshop: Premise vs. Premises
Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script? If so, consider attending my Writing Effective eLearning Voiceover Scripts class. also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class. by Jennie Ruby. OK, I know we all love the police talk. Law & Order, CSI, COPS, etc. have made police blotter jargon extremely popular. Legalistic language is everywhere. " I get it. understand. just read a Grisham novel myself. It is a working supposition one uses in logic problems. MORE >> -
I CAME, I SAW, I LEARNED | TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010 Writing & Grammar Workshop: Funny? Do You Think That's Funny?
And I developed a smile, if not a chuckle, from this bit from Susannah Gardner and Shane Birley's Blogging for Dummies : "No matter what your teenager tells you, there is absolutely no requirement that you must write your blog while wearing your pajamas. Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script? I'm teaching a new online class in May called Writing Effective eLearning Voiceover Scripts. also teach the Writing Training Documents and. eLearning Scripts class. Can the use of humor help? MORE >> -
I CAME, I SAW, I LEARNED | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2011 Writing & Grammar Workshop: Infinitives and Who versus Whom
Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script? If so, consider attending my Writing Effective eLearning Voiceover Scripts class. also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class. by Jennie Ruby. To be, or not to be, asked Hamlet, making those two infinitives among the most well-known phrases in English. An infinitive is a verb form with the word to in front of it, in the form to verb. To be , to think , to ski , and so on. Jimmy asked who/m to ski behind. MORE >> -
I CAME, I SAW, I LEARNED | THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 2011 Writing & Grammar Workshop: Who versus Whom
Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script? If so, consider attending my Writing Effective eLearning Voiceover Scripts class. also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class. by Jennie Ruby. In every custom grammar class I teach, I get a request to review who versus whom. The choice between who and whom is arguably the hardest decision in grammar to make correctly. But it all comes down to this: is the word who/m a subject or an object in the sentence. Writing & Grammar MORE >> -
I CAME, I SAW, I LEARNED | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2011 Writing & Grammar Workshop: Do I Have to Repeat "a" or "the" in a List?
Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script? If so, consider attending my Writing Effective eLearning Voiceover Scripts class. also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class. by Jennie Ruby. In my most recent online writing class , I noticed that when deleting unnecessary words from a sample sentence, some students wanted to keep the word the before every item in a list, and some wanted to take it out. Do we need the word the before every item? needed for the project. MORE >>
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