You’re a business professional. And, perhaps unexpectedly, your job requires you to create communication designs all the time–PowerPoint presentations, data visualizations, sales reports, user’s manuals, web pages, instructions, marketing collateral, fliers, business cards, you name it. But chances are pretty good that, unless you specifically took courses in graphic design
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If you’re writing any kind of paper—essay, report, legal document, proposal, etc.—and you reference ideas that are not original to you, you need to be citing your sources. Citing sources gives credit to the people who developed original ideas and research. Citing sources will keep you from plagiarizing and help
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Design isn’t just for graphic designers and marketing gurus. If you’re good at design, you’ll succeed in ways you never thought possible. Business professionals: we live in age where there is no excuse to not be more design-conscious. And it has never been more important that you become so now.
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Somewhere every June, in the far dark corners of the earth, a unique gathering happens: over 1,000 high school and college English teachers from across the United States meet to score AP English exams. It’s a mysterious part of my career that has consumed nine days of my life every
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So, I’m kind of a lover of languages. Whenever I’ve had a chance to travel around the globe, I’ve been fascinated by the differences in, say Czech versus Polish, when the two countries are right next to each other. And languages like Khmer (Cambodia) are so foreign to me, yet
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All-you-can-eat sushi! All-you-can-eat “sushi”! What’s the difference between the two phrases above? It’s the difference between real, quality ingredients made from fresh, edible goodness and, well, some mysterious concoction that may or may not do your bowels any favors four hours after eating it. Those quotation marks make a huge
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My experience tells me that, in theory, most high school graduates understand the most fundamental rule about using apostrophes: they are used for possession. (Oh, sure, apostrophes do other things, too [like omitting letters in contractions, among other things], but the possession thing tends to be what people think of
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Punctuation, like the word’s most famous flightless bird–the dodo–may be on the verge of extinction. Not all punctuation marks risk the dodo’s fate, of course. Periods will likely stand the test of time–they’re the one constant in the construction of written language, and they’re fairly universal. With few exceptions, most
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Surveys are a research tool designed to gather specific information from large groups of people. Depending on the sample size of people and the questions asked, surveys can sometimes be quantified and used for statistical analysis. Use surveys to learn perspectives from a wide range of people. Click on the
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Observations are an important research method for managers, businesses, and researchers alike to determine how people interact and behave in different environments. Observations can help researchers better determine what people do given different scenarios and environmental factors. Click on the diagram below to learn the five steps for conducting effective
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