Articles for tag: Active Voice, Mystery Shopping Companies, Passive Voice

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How to Write a Great Mystery Shopping Report

You did everything right. You got to the right restaurant on time. You discreetly slipped into the restroom to jot important information on an index card. You wrote a report filled with fabulous details and filed it hours ahead of your deadline. When you received your grade, it wasn’t a 10. Or even a 9. ...

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Creative Writing – Your Writing Style

Your Writing Style Your writing style is simply the way you put sentences together and the way you construct a sentence. Style is very subjective. Different readers have different opinions of what they feel is good writing and what is bad writing. Some readers and editors prefer a passive voice (which is usually accepted in ...

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3 Great Online Grammar Checkers

When you are writing important documents-whether it be web content, a newsletter, print article or a book, it is important to always double-check your grammar. There is nothing that looks more unprofessional than content with many errors. It is true, that sometimes, errors may go by unnoticed and do get published, but it is ideal ...

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How to Write a College Admission Essay that Gets You Noticed

Your college admission essay is your chance to let college admissions boards know who you are as an individual. You know that you are not just a collection of grades, an SAT score and a list of extracurricular activities, but the college selection board doesn’t know that. Besides your college admission essay that is all ...

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Passive Voice: Linking Verbs and Wordiness

Editing is my ‘day job’, so to speak, and the last two novels I edited were too long, both well over 120,000 words. This works for established authors, but not so much for new authors who are untried yet. When writing fiction articles, the writer usually has a word count limit as well. Being concise ...