The trend worldwide is to use fewer initial capital letters in headlines and titles. The two prevalent styles are both correct. Option 1 Maximum capitalization means capitalizing all words except tiny or unimportant words like to or of. This style...
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Posts tagged "plain English"
Plain language in art captions: bring it on
Plain language has more than one kind of enemy. Quite often in academia there's a tacit agreement to approach a work of art from one angle only. Even if students are encouraged to explore their own byways, official works are...
12 features of sustainable corporate training
Everywhere, every day busy professionals are writing more and more and more than ever before in the history of the human race. Most have never been trained to write modern business English, let alone trained to write for content management...
Plain language: even buskers need it
Plain English Week starts Sunday 28 August in New Zealand. Everyone needs to write clearly: even buskers. Michel des Godins is a thrilling throat-singer, performing his incomprehensible poetry on the streets of Paris—through a false beard. His documentation, on signs...
Writing tip: Don't use a long word when a short word will do
Don't use a long word when a short one will do. That's a short, sweet plain English writing tip in plain English, after I overextended myself in the last blog. (Unsucked: I wrote too much.) Plainer English is not Nobrainer...