Every good process has checks built into it. Without checks in place, we have no control on the quality of the output. In writing, the editor plays the role of the check to ensure that what is written is correct and adheres to the accepted standards.
Category: Good writing
Breaking a custom
In a world where it is often proclaimed that “the customer is king”, we are constantly bombarded with items or services that are custom-made for us. The word custom has always held a deep fascination for me because of the inherent contradiction in its uses.
Flexible documents
A key aspect of making your document flexible is to avoid the use of words like following, above, before and preceding.
Nouns stacks
Peruse the website of any company that builds software or maintains software and you are bound to come across such noun stacks. Like a freight train, you get noun after noun appended together to form, what I assume is, a term that makes you feel the company is doing something special.
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