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Quiz Yourself: Is Your Grammar Holding You Back?

Quiz Yourself: Is Your Grammar Holding You Back? | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
From hbr.org - August 28, 2015 6:38 PM

Why nitpick about grammar? Because if you don’t, people will assume you don’t know what you’re talking about — they often equate sloppy speech or writing with sloppy thinking. As a result, you may miss out on career and business opportunities. The stakes are that high.


This brief quiz will help you gauge how well you know some basic points of grammar. At the end, see how your score compares with the average on hbr.org....

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Are you a grammar God? Only one way to find out. Take the Harvard Business Review test.

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The way to capitalize a headline (all right, several ways)

The way to capitalize a headline (all right, several ways) | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
From www.ragan.com - March 9, 2015 1:44 PM

When in doubt, the government printing office offers a helpful general rule. Capitalize everything except for “the articles a, an, and the; the prepositions at, by, for, in, of, on, to, and up; the conjunctions and, as, but, if, or, and nor; and the second element of a compound numeral,” such as One Hundred Twenty-three Years (if spelled out).

Note that prepositions of four letters or longer, such as from or among, are capitalized. Also, up, which is both an adverb and an adjective, can be an exception. Your government offers this example: “Built-Up Stockpiles Are Necessary (Up is an adverb here).”...

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Huge pet peeve of mine. AP style rules or follow the trend and use "sentence case."

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Why don’t writers indent paragraphs anymore?

Why don’t writers indent paragraphs anymore? | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
From www.ragan.com - March 9, 2015 2:24 PM

I recently downloaded a very helpful e-book from a company that I admire and respect greatly.


The offering was pertinent, topical and practical. I learned a lot of what I expected to learn; the title was descriptive and accurate. So, what's my beef?

The paragraphs were indented. Yes, old-school indented. Like all the papers I wrote in college in AP style. Like all my high school themes. Like my handwritten letters to my children that I wrote when they were babies, more than 20 years ago.

It was jarring, really. Super distracting....

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Claire Celsi shares a beef about paragraph indents being old-fashioned. I totally agree!

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rodrick rajive lal's curator insight, March 10, 2015 5:05 AM

Formats keep changing, they did in the past, the only difference is that the changes are coming on really fast these days. Remember how once apon a time we used the slant format style for writing formal letters, and then we shifted to the block format? Dynamic nature of language means that changes will happen and we need to keep abreast of these. This however doesn't mean that we should be totally ignorant about formats from the past. In this case, it should come as  a distraction to read a book where the paragraphs have been indented.It is absolutely OK to have indented paragraphs. Some books especially novels can start with a non indented first paragraph followed by the rest of the paragraphs that have not been indented.
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