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First things first for language learners and sharpeners
It’s a chicken and age question: Which comes first when learning a language, speaking or writing? I’ve been thinking about this a lot since I started preparing to teach English as a Second Language...
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English learners often have a lot of trouble with the present perfect tense, as in I have been to the moon. This tense doesn’t exist in many languages. What’s more, it’s more about what happened in the...
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In praise of personal autonomy–or why you should let me do it my way
You know when all that noise is interrupted by the clank of sound waves colliding? That happened to me recently when two experts in different fields confirmed that personal autonomy is the best way to...
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5 tips for writing for people whose English is not as good as yours
You probably don’t want to sail over the heads of the growing portion of your customers and employees whose first language is not English. Then there are the many people viewing your site from...
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7 business writing tips for 2017
I’ve been thinking about updating my business writing guide, Write Like You Talk Only Better. In the past five years, mobile technologies and cultural changes have continued to reshape how we...
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