June 2021

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EFL 2. Writing your LinkedIn purpose and identity

If you want to write on professional social media platforms, you need to be clear what your purpose is and who you are on the platform. Not sure what this is? That’s ok because in this article, I will show you how to do this. The first step is to become familiar with others on […]

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EFL 1. 3 Pro tips for effective LinkedIn writing for non-native English speakers

3 tips for social media writing for non-native speakers, English as a Foreign Language, EFL

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Insights into the usefulness of machine grammar/spell checkers for improving research writing

A comparison analysis of Human copy editor vs machine grammar/spell checker on key sections of a research manuscript. Many errors in the original non-native English speaker’s writing were not found by Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Ginger, Grammarly, and Trinka. Longer and difficult to read sentences were not identified by the machine language checkers.

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Political miscommunication … or How to turn a lily into a death threat

In Act-II, Scene-II of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet famously says “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By Any Other Name would smell as sweet.”  She is of course referring to family names being unimportant. The Capulets are sworn enemies of the Montagues, but she is saying that her name “Capulet”

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