{"id":118,"date":"2008-10-01T11:08:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T18:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/credible-content.com\/content\/improving-you-writing-skills\/"},"modified":"2008-10-01T11:08:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T18:08:36","slug":"improving-you-writing-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/improving-you-writing-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving you writing skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you make a living writing then it goes without saying that your writing skill needs to be as impeccable as possible.&#160; Not everybody is perfect and there is no harm in being a bit less than perfect but as a writer you should always work towards improving you writing skill no matter what language you use to render the service.&#160; I use English and therefore I found <a title=\"this article on improving you writing at Techrepublic\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.techrepublic.com.com\/10things\/?p=421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this article on improving you writing at Techrepublic<\/a> quite engaging.&#160; Although I didn\u2019t learn something new it was a refreshing experience because I see such errors cropping up on various blogs almost on a daily basis. I wish the article had explained a few more things for those who really need some guidance.&#160; For instance the writer says that all the items in a list should be parallel. A bad example of a list would be (<em>taken from the article<\/em>): <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Backing up the registry<\/li>\n<li>The Registry Editor is your friend<\/li>\n<li>Using REG files<\/li>\n<li>Use a GUI tool<\/li>\n<li>Searching the registry<\/li>\n<li>Take advantage of Favorites<\/li>\n<li>Clean the registry <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This should be rightly written as (you may not agree but this is just my take on it): <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Backing up the registry<\/li>\n<li>Making the registry editor your friend<\/li>\n<li>Using REG files<\/li>\n<li>Using a GUI tool<\/li>\n<li>Searching the registry<\/li>\n<li>Taking advantage of Favorites<\/li>\n<li>Cleaning the registry <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don\u2019t know the technical explanation but you can notice that every item begins with an \u201cing\u201d word.&#160; Another example would be (without the \u201cing\u201d word): <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Backup the registry<\/li>\n<li>Make the registry editor your friend<\/li>\n<li>Use REG files<\/li>\n<li>Use a GUI tool<\/li>\n<li>Search the registry<\/li>\n<li>Take advantage of Favorites<\/li>\n<li>Clean the registry <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another good explanation in the article is the agreement of verbs. The wrong usage is <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neither of the doctors are very smart<\/li>\n<li>The dog, as well as the goat and chicken, are easy to parallel park<\/li>\n<li>One-third of the company are color blind <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would rewrite the sentences as (<em>somehow I\u2019m not sure of the second sentence, please advise in the comment section<\/em>) <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neither of the doctors is very smart<\/li>\n<li>The dog, as well as the board and the chicken, is easy to parallel park<\/li>\n<li>One-third of the company is color blind <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How do you make sense of the verbs here? I use my commonsense and since I never learned the language&#160; formerly I cannot explain it.&#160; Please do so in the comment section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you make a living writing then it goes without saying that your writing skill needs to be as impeccable as possible.&#160; Not everybody is perfect and there is no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-on-writing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Improving you writing skills - Credible Content Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/improving-you-writing-skills\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Improving you writing skills - Credible Content Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you make a living writing then it goes without saying that your writing skill needs to be as impeccable as possible.&#160; Not everybody is perfect and there is no...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/improving-you-writing-skills\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Credible Content Writing &amp; SEO Copywriting Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CredibleContent\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/amrithallan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-10-01T18:08:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Amrit Hallan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@amrithallan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ContentGyan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Amrit Hallan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/improving-you-writing-skills\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/improving-you-writing-skills\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Amrit Hallan\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ca0b0af763e9f25438545eee2a328607\"},\"headline\":\"Improving you writing skills\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-10-01T18:08:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/improving-you-writing-skills\/\"},\"wordCount\":403,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Thoughts On Writing\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/improving-you-writing-skills\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/improving-you-writing-skills\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/improving-you-writing-skills\/\",\"name\":\"Improving you writing skills - Credible Content Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2008-10-01T18:08:36+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/improving-you-writing-skills\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/improving-you-writing-skills\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/improving-you-writing-skills\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Improving you writing skills\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Credible Content Writing &amp; SEO Copywriting Blog\",\"description\":\"Looking for insightful blog posts on content writing, and SEO copywriting? 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