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Tag: <span>Writing and editing</span>
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Tag: Writing and editing

Use writing and editing best practices to develop responsive proposals that score well against RFP evaluation criteria.

A Man Walks Into a Bar – Riff #5

14 October 2020 12 October 2020  Writing and editing 2

Yikes. More grammar. Who’s in charge here?

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A Man Walks Into a Bar – Riff #4

08 October 2020 07 October 2020  Writing and editing

It’s more work but it will get better marks. And that’s why we’re here, right?

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A Man Walks Into a Bar – Riff #3

30 September 2020 29 September 2020  Writing and editing 2

An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television getting drunk and smoking cigars. OK, grammar posts are bad enough, but punctuation? Come on. Wait just a minute. Punctuation has a purpose: It helps the reader understand what the sentence means. The first time …

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The Entabulator

25 September 2020 30 September 2020  Writing and editing

“It’s not cheap, but I’m sure the Government will want to buy it.”

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A Man Walks Into a Bar – Riff #2

23 September 2020 21 September 2020  Writing and editing

That Tolstoy was such a joker.

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