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![]() Jeff March And Marti Childs - ArticlesJeff March and Marti Childs are co-owners of EditPros LLC, an editorial services company that performs writing, editing and proofreading for businesses, educational institutions, research organizations, government agencies, and trade and professional organizations. EditPros, of Davis, Calif., was established in 1993. Marti and Jeff also teach writing and editing seminars, and are co-authors of a book titled "Echoes of the Sixties" (1999, Billboard Books, New York; ISBN: 0-8230-8316-0).
Rate Communication Skills When Interviewing Job ApplicantsConducting Job Interviews is Critically Important in the Hiring Process. if You Pose Your Questions Carefully and Deliberately, You May be Able to Elicit Responses That Reveal Information not Only About Applicants' Education, Job Experience, Teamwork and Leadership Skills, But Also About Their Proficiency in Spoken and Written Communication. Here are Seven Indicators That Can Help You Score an Applicant's Ability to Organize Thoughts and Express Them Clearly, Concisely and Intelligently. Verb Rationing Afflicts Broadcast News MediaVerbs once were the stock-in-trade of action-oriented news media. Today, however, many television and radio newscasts are peppered with sentence fragments lacking verbs, masquerading as sentences. In an evening newscast, an anchor declared: "The President releasing his budget proposal today. And on the chopping block, California's flood control projects and wildfire management." Here are examples of the recurrent errors we heard while monitoring 26 radio and TV stations. Write Your Web Content For The Hothead Behind You On The FreewayNo matter how good your site looks, impatience will quickly drive your visitors elsewhere if your written content doesn't get them to pay attention. Twenty seconds.
That's all the time you may have to convey what you do and convince visitors that you have what they're seeking, and that you can get it into their hands quickly. These are folks who seek instant gratification. Make sure your Web site gives it to them. Here are 10 ways how. Word Processing Grammar Checkers Miss More Errors Than They FindWhile the grammar checkers of the most popular word processing applications can help draw attention to problematic sentences, they don't always offer the correct reason or the proper resolution. In our test, the best-performing grammar checker found fewer than half of the errors in our example sentences. This article reveals what word processing grammar checkers found — and missed.
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