Writing tips
There’s no ‘their’ there
“There are” constructions
Word economy, how to say more with less
More word economy tips
Pre and pro prefixes
Replace stilted bureaucratese
Commonly misspelled words
Use word pictures
Umbrella modifiers - Green lettuce and lunchmeat
For PR pros
'We’re excited to announce' PR release intro
Words of the day
Adjacent, contiguous
adverse and averse
Adopted, adoptive
Aggravate, irritate
Allude, elude
Anxious, eager
Assure, ensure, insure
Beside, besides
block, bloc
breathe, breath, breadth
Calvary or Cavalry
Capitol, capital
Cite, sight, site
Climatic, climactic
Compliment, complement
Compose, comprise
Conscious and conscience
Continuous, continual
Convince, persuade
Devise, device
Dilemma, crisis, problem
Destroy, decimate
Discreet and discrete
Dock, wharf, pier
Educator
Expect, anticipate
Everyday, every day
Fair, fare
Farther, further
Fewer, less
Flotsam, jetsam
Imply, infer
Incredible and incredulous
Libel, slander, false light
Lose, loose
Moot, mute
Nausea, nauseous, nauseated
Oral, verbal
Prostate, prostrate
Refute, rebut, respond
Reluctant, reticent
Robbery, burglary, theft
Sediment, sentiment
Take and bring
Tenants, tenets
That, which
They're, their, there
Things in threes
"Try and . . . ." constructions
Uninterested, disinterested
Wax and wane
Weather, whether, wether
Who and that
Grammar tips
How to use and abuse apostrophes
Help for doing your own PR
How to produce basic news releases that work
Form for press release
