So, you’re writing your Christmas card and you’re being ultra careful to get everything correct. After all, this card is going to your relatives, your friends, your boss, your coworkers, your…favorite English teacher? You’ve taken the time to get a really great photo of you and your family; you’ve made
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‘Tis the season for sending holiday greetings! Sadly, it’s also the season for many grammatical and punctuation errors hanging on our refrigerators. If you’re about to create this year’s Christmas card (or for Hanukah, New Year’s Day, or Kwanzaa)—and if grammar and punctuation isn’t exactly your…cup of hot cocoa—don’t fret;
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Apostrophes don’t belong in your last name on a Christmas card. Ever. (Unless, of course, you have apostrophe in the actual spelling of your name; more on that below.) Why? Because apostrophes are a punctuation mark designed to show possession—as in, when something belongs to something else, like a reindeer’s
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I often ask myself this: if I had 2 more hours in a day, would I get more done? Would I cross off more bucket list items? Truth is, most of us have time, somewhere in a day, to accomplish something on our bucket lists. Case in point? To read
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*Please scroll below to see an enlarged and expandable version of the graphic.* I’m going outside of my traditional infographics in this post with something more personal. As a life-long Christian and someone who has always appreciated and been intellectually curious about the religious roots of and relationships between the
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So, you’ve used a set of parentheses in a sentence and now you’re wondering: where on earth does the period go? While it would be nice if the answer was as simple as “Before” or “After” the final parenthesis, the real answer is…”it depends.” But don’t worry! It’s not complicated
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So, what’s an em dash? In short, it’s one of the coolest and most useful punctuation marks for sprucing up your writing. Em dashes make your writing more sophisticated—and professionally conversational. (See how I just did that, there? I inserted an em dash after “sophisticated” [looks like a hyphen but
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Let me start by saying this may be one of my favorite design hacks in PowerPoint, in part because it looks cool but also because it’s super easy to do. When creating slides, one of your primary goals should always be to help your audience focus in on your key
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When you give a presentation, it’s likely you find using a slide deck helpful. It keeps you organized, it allows you to visualize your complex information, and it helps keep your audience engaged. But have you put much thought into how designing different slide types can help your audience follow
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Today’s punctuation power tip is about the apostrophe situation in the phrase “dos and don’ts.” Many people get this one wrong, so let’s set the record straight. Apostrophes, if you remember from my post about Christmas cards, are for making nouns possessive or for creating contractions. If Stephanie owns a
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