by English Wanted | Mar 22, 2021 | learning, presentation, speaking
You know how it is. It’s four o’clock on Friday, you’re on the last Zoom call of the day, and suddenly you’re woken from your daydream by Jones from Marketing: “Anyway, our AB readership, many of whom are ABs, have been thoroughly AB...
by English Wanted | Mar 12, 2021 | editing, presentation, writing
I’ve been reading a book about graphic design whose author takes inspiration from his experience of Japanese culture. His creative approach centres on a deep understanding of space and simplicity, reduction rather than complication. Whether it’s the...
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 | 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...
by English Wanted | Dec 17, 2018 | editing, presentation, proofreading, writing
Because everyone uses language differently, style guides exist to provide some degree of consistency. They are like rule-books, providing a ‘correct’ approach to punctuation, grammar, sentence structure, disputed spellings and so on. They also cover areas such as...
