Mistake Monday

MISTAKE MONDAY for August 26: Can YOU spot what’s wrong?

Can you spot what’s wrong in the image below? Please post your answer as a comment. I wonder if the author dictated their text. I post these challenges to raise awareness of the importance of proofreading.

Improve your financial writing with these rules

Improve your financial writing with these rules

Sometimes I find inspiration for my writing in unusual places. For example, it appeared in a newsletter from a professional organizer. Lorena Prime’s “7 Golden Rules of Organizing” made me think about how you can improve your financial writing skills. Rule 1. Be open to change It’s not easy to change your financial writing style […]

Adapting to SEO’s changes

Is search engine optimization (SEO) changing for the better? That’s the sense I get from “How to Write SEO-Driven Content That Customers (And Search Engines) Love” from Contently. The article makes me feel as if good writing and good SEO are converging, I like the article’s four suggestions for improving your writing’s search engine ranking: Get […]

Mistake Monday

MISTAKE MONDAY for July 29: Can YOU spot what’s wrong?

Can you spot what’s wrong in the image below? Please post your answer as a comment. I’m embarrassed to say that this was my own typo. I started Mistake Monday to encourage myself to proofread more carefully. I post these challenges to raise awareness of the importance of proofreading.

All versus all of

“All” versus “all of”

I’m a little obsessive about proper usage, but there are plenty of holes in my knowledge of writing style. Thus, when I saw “all our funds,” it drove me to the internet to see if that should read “all of our funds.” My first observation: this seems to be a question mainly for English language […]