Top Ten Tips Part 1

Written by Elaine Currie, BA (Hons)


Golden Rules For New Writers - Things you need to know before you begin.

Rules govern everything we do in life; even if those rules are ofrepparttar unwritten kind we abide by them and expect other people to dorepparttar 100344 same. Why should writing be any different? It shouldn’t be and it isn’t. The following rules arerepparttar 100345 basis for good writing. If anyone tries to tell you that rules are made to be broken, remember that you have to learn those rules before you try to bend them or break them otherwise you are just being sloppy, not radical.

The following rules are essential if you want people to take you seriously.

Be yourself Know your subject Be interested Punctuate proudly Respectrepparttar 100346 apostrophe Get great grammar Spell well Keep torepparttar 100347 point Read and revise Sleep on it Pay attention to detail

Be yourself

Write fromrepparttar 100348 heart orrepparttar 100349 head orrepparttar 100350 gut, depending uponrepparttar 100351 type of writing you are doing. You can let your heart pour passion into a love letter but your head is better forrepparttar 100352 contents of a business letter andrepparttar 100353 gut feeling should never be ignored. Never try to imitate somebody else’s style, no matter how much you might admire it, you will always appear fake. Find your own unique style, your own voice.

Know Your Subject

Write on topics you know about. Although that sounds obvious you don’t have to look very far to find masses of people publishing articles when it is clear that they have very little idea about their subject matter. This type of writing appears thin, limp and unconvincing even torepparttar 100354 untrained eye. You should aim for writing which has substance; a rounded, healthy thing with a life of its own. If, for some reason, you are obliged to write about a topic which is alien to you, makerepparttar 100355 effort to research it. If you can’t get torepparttar 100356 library, there is alwaysrepparttar 100357 internet. There is no excuse for ignorance. There is no excuse for trying to foist a poorly researched article on your readers. Do you want your readers to point you out as someone who does not know what s/he is talking about?

Be interested

Write about things which interest you. If you are not interested in your subject matter, you have little hope of catchingrepparttar 100358 interest of your reader. If you are in a situation where you simply have to write about a subject which holds no real interest for you, try at least to find an original angle; this could stimulate you as well as your reader. If you cannot spark even faint interest in your subject, your writing will be flat and boring.

Punctuate proudly

Don’t be one of those people who pretend they don’t think punctuation matters: it does. Ask your self this: if these people really believe that, why do they bother to punctuate at all? Why don’t they just write on and on without any dots or commas? That, surely, is more logical than putting in dots and commas inrepparttar 100359 wrong places. The truth is, they are too lazy to learnrepparttar 100360 rules of punctuation and think they can get away with this by brushing punctuation off as unimportant. Punctuation has had a very bad time overrepparttar 100361 last forty years or so but I believe it is about to undergo a revival. These things go in cycles and it seems that punctuation is about to have its day at last. Correct punctuation could berepparttar 100362 new black. If you don’t believe this, how do you explain why so many thousands of people bought "Eats, Shoots & Leaves"? Even if you have no interest in creating elegant prose, you should learn about punctuation . Without it your writing will at best be difficult to read and at worst not make sense. You will be left wondering why people are laughing at your serious work.

How to find a worthwhile online business

Written by David Elbeze


In order to findrepparttar right business, you need to knowrepparttar 100343 difference between a good offer and a bad one, it's not as hard as it looks like.

Almost every search we operate onrepparttar 100344 web begins with a search engine, for most of us Google. usually afterrepparttar 100345 first optimistic shot, we get thousands of results, some of them non relevant, others full of pop-ups and when you're lucky you finally enter an enjoyable site that soon becomes very annoying when you find out that your credit card number is actually of greater importance than your first name.

The Internet as we know it today definitely hasrepparttar 100346 greatest money-making potential power inrepparttar 100347 world, but let's not forget it's alsorepparttar 100348 easiest place to lose your money at, evenrepparttar 100349 money you don't have yet! so you better be very careful when choosing a business opportunity. I'll try to give you 3 ofrepparttar 100350 most important tips when doing that.

1)The first thing you want to avoid and revoke are scams and frauds, once falling into one of those you will feel so deceived it will probably smash all you're plans and dreams for a better future and by that miss real opportunities to start your online career. it's actually very easy to do that, all you have to do when you find a so called "make money online" offer is to typerepparttar 100351 name ofrepparttar 100352 business/individual in your search engine together with "scam" and "fraud" for example, usually you'll find out very fast if you're dealing with a serious business offer or not.

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