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		<title>Using Creative Comparisons</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comparisons can liven up your writing, making your ideas clearer and more compelling. A good comparison can: 

Make a concept familiar and attractive. The movement of air from our cooling system is as gentle and quiet as a breeze through an open window. 
Move flat and dull to appealing and interesting. At Wayne&#8217;s Auto Repair, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling at Ease</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Fluency is the first consideration. It is the basic for all that follows.&#8221;
&#8212;Dan Kirby, co-author of Inside Out
I am a writer who happens to write about&#8230;writing. I&#8217;ve spent a good part of my professional career studying the craft and putting into practice what I have learned. My writing partners and I have developed a very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millenials: So you think you can email?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For today&#8217;s youngest workers&#8212;those twenty-somethings fresh out of college or graduate school&#8212;learning how to write professional emails may seem a bit elementary. After all, the millennials (which includes anyone born after 1977) are the first generation to grow up in a digital age. Sending an email message is about as second nature to them as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last time we talked about subject-verb agreement, but that&#8217;s not where grammar agreement ends! Another troublesome area is pronoun-antecedent agreement, so let&#8217;s make it simple: Pronouns must agree with their antecedents&#8212;the nouns they refer to&#8212;in gender and in number.
Gender is pretty straightforward. If your antecedent is masculine&#8212;say, Jim&#8212;any pronouns referring to it must also be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eTips Featured on Fast Company Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You are probably aware of Fast Company magazine&#8212;a full-color, monthly business publication that reports on innovation in digital media, technology, leadership, and social entrepreneurship. But are you aware of their blog, one of the first staff-written blogs on the Web? The June issue of our eTips newsletter was featured in a recent Fast Company blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subject-Verb Agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes writers make the mistake of mismatching their verbs and subjects. Subjects and verbs must agree in number. In other words, they must both be either singular&#8230;or plural. Here are four situations in which subject-verb agreement errors are likely to occur. 

When the subject and verb are separated: Be careful when a noun comes between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 16:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Numbers present a special problem in writing because sometimes they should be spelled out, and other times they should be written as numerals. Here are just a few ways to correctly write numbers.  

As a general rule, spell out numbers from one to nine and use numerals for numbers 10 and over. However, consistency [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Hyphens</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 16:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The short hyphen can go a long way to create clarity in your writing. However, while there are several instances in which a hyphen is needed, there are some times in which it is not. 
First, use a hyphen to create a compound adjective that comes before the noun. For example, in the sentence&#8230;
She carefully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing Choppy Sentences</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good writing achieves a rhythm by using a variety of sentence patterns and lengths. If all of your sentences are the same length, your writing will be choppy or jarring. Here are some tips for avoiding or correcting this problem.
One suggestion is to combine short sentences into longer ones. For example, consider these short sentences: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferreting Out Fragments</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The standard definition of a sentence is &#8220;a group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought.&#8221; If one or more of these elements are missing, the sentence is not complete; it is a fragment. Fragments can interrupt the flow of your writing and may suggest poor proofreading, so it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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