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

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....