Quality, Not Quantity It’s a lot of fun to look for biggest words we can find to replace with; but it’s not productive. The goal is to find word that makes rest of sentence sound its best; this also means that you only want to replace words that make a sentence unclear. It’s never fun to read a document that is full of words that you don’t understand or that you have to stop to regroup after each sentence. You also need to keep your audience in mind when choosing words.

Focus on Your Main Thoughts When you’re trying to decide which words to replace, it’s usually good to start with your main points. Remember what you learned in your writing class: Each paragraph should have a main sentence with remaining sentences supporting it. Pick out your main sentences from each paragraph and make sure that they sound clear. From here, you should be able to pick out ones that need attention.

The Second Opinion Never underestimate power of a proofreader. They will always notice things that you don’t because writers tend to focus primarily on topic they’re writing about. My proofreader (which happens to be my lovely wife) constantly comes up with concerns that I never think about. Most importantly, she always points out words that don’t make sense to her and usually has a suggestion for a replacement. In end, goal is for a document is for it to make sense to your reader; so after you’ve used your other thesaurus tools, be sure that your final test comes from a reader, as well.

I find thesaurus to be one of greatest tools that we can use to put our documents over top. Perhaps its decline in popularity is mainly due to many of us not knowing how to use it properly. Maybe this article will help thesaurus to make a comeback. Well, at least now your documents can be “negated of imprecision”.

3. Do NOT go into Registry unless you know exactly what you are doing. This can leave your Puter inoperable!

4. If you are running a later version of Windows that lets you create Restore Points, do this immediately before doing ANY KIND of alterations on your system including installing a new program. If your Windows version does not include System Restore points then invest in a good program like Goback that will do job for you. http://www.roxio.com/en/products/goback/index.jhtml

5. Do NOT go into Registry unless you know exactly what you are doing. This can leave your Puter inoperable!

6. If you are going to go there, you should already know these rules.

RULE SET 2

1. Copy Rule Set 1 to a text document, make it very bold, use red text, print it out and stick it on front of your Puter.

2. Always run a quality Anti-Virus program. If you can't afford one, get rid of your Puter because investment doesn't mean much to you. $30.00 to $40.00 to protect a $1,000.00 and up investment is a no brainer.

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3. If your Anti-Virus program does not have auto-update that updates every day, do updates manually no less than every 2 days. Most Anti-Virus programs expire after a year so they will quit updating and you won't know it.

4. Update your Anti-Virus files no less than every other day.

5. Do Windows Update at least once a week to keep up with latest security fixes from Microsoft.

6. Update your Anti-Virus files no less than every other day.

7. If you are on Internet for more than 37 seconds a day run a Firewall. You can get a free version of ZoneAlarm from ZoneLabs. www.zonelabs.com

8. Do NOT go into Registry unless you know exactly what you are doing. This can leave your Puter inoperable!

9. Update your Anti-Virus files no less than every other day.

10. Make sure your Anti-Virus program is running all time.

No, old age has not caused me to repeat myself over and over. You DID see some repetition in above Rules.

Hopefully that will burn them into your mind because it is that important!

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