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Archive for August, 2008

Top 10 writing glitches

In nearly three decades teaching writing courses and pouring over thousands of student stories, I’ve been subjected to plenty of grammatical and style missteps. Some of them reared their heads more often than others. Here’s a look at 10 prevalent violations:
1. Its vs. It’s. I doubt you’re particularly surprised by this one. It has plagued [...]

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The scarcity of PR resources in Canada

A comment by recent Centennial grad Brandon Carlos to a post by Judy Gombita on PR Conversations about the launch of PR Week’s Canadian newsletter, rued the lack of a Canadian PR textbook and similar resources. The observation prompted a second posting from Judy who was on the hunt for materials about Canadian corporate communications [...]

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