Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

At Grammarly, we found some data to back this up. We studied 100 LinkedIn profiles of native English-speakers in the consumer packaged goods industry, and each of the professionals we looked at worked for no more than three employers over the first 10 years of their career. Half were promoted to director-level or above within those 10 years, and the other half were not.

We discovered a correlation between the number of grammar and spelling errors in a profile and the trajectory of that person’s career. Here are some of our study's main takeaways...

Think you know all about grammar & punctuation? Your grammar called and she thought it was time for a serious punctuation lesson.

The PR Coach takes you on a journey to the twilight zone of punctuation for every PR writer, blogger and wordsmith. Think you know everything about grammar and punctuation? Not so fast Pilgrim.

A little test to whet your appetite:

-  What is this character called: ‽

-  What does the tilde  ~  indicate?

-  How is the index/fist  ☞  used?

-  What's the name of this character  § ?

Read on for 23 strange characters every writer should know but may never use ;-) ...

~ Jeff