by English Wanted | Jan 16, 2020 | editing, presentation, speaking, voice, writing
The rapid advance in 21st-century technology affects (some would say, controls) every aspect of our lives, whether at home, school or work. And it’s now become so ingrained that we barely notice it. For example, by far the most visible of today’s...
by English Wanted | Aug 27, 2019 | editing, proofreading, writing
In the social-media-driven world of today, accuracy is more important than ever. It’s also, it seems, increasingly hard to find. A huge amount of what we read these days, on- or off-line, seems to be either deliberately or accidentally miswritten. And while...
by English Wanted | Jul 23, 2019 | editing, proofreading, writing
Proofreading by definition comes at the end of most publishing projects, and for that reason is the part of the process most frequently put off or even ignored. One of the most thankless aspects of the proofreader’s job is to have a job cancelled by clients who...
by English Wanted | Mar 15, 2019 | presentation, speaking, writing
Business presentations have come a long way from the dry recitation of quarterly results, the predictable analysis of strengths, weaknesses and opportunities, and the proposed strategic plan ‘going forward’. These days it’s pretty much de rigeur to...
by English Wanted | Jan 4, 2019 | editing, presentation, proofreading, writing
The word ‘critic’ originally denoted a judge, whose job was to draw the (often fine) distinction between a good or bad action, a defendant’s guilt or innocence, or the positive or negative outcome of a disease. Life is full of such...
