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Monthly Archives: February 2010

Tut tut. Students today, eh?

February 24, 2010 – 3:37 pm

Look at this guy. Going on People Per Hour hoping to find someone who’ll write his university application form and reference letters. Surely if you want to do a degree you should have the ability to string a sentence or two together? And have genuine references? I’m guessing there’s a pattern of cheating developing here. [...]

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It’s 2010. Let’s all black | Up

February 23, 2010 – 5:00 pm

Thanks to Debenhams for giving me a big belly laugh this afternoon with their mailshot promoting the number one French cosmetic brand now available in their stores, black | Up. It doesn’t say much about the folk who work in marketing that they could miss such a glaring cultural reference as this. To a white [...]

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Eleven rules for writing for the web

February 23, 2010 – 4:42 pm

The Guardian’s four-page spread on Ten Rules For Writing Fiction at the weekend was hugely enjoyable. Margaret Atwood said, ‘Take something to write on. Paper is good.’ Roddy Doyle said do keep a thesaurus – but in the shed where you can’t get at it easily. And Will Self finished on something rude which I [...]

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Don’t let bad spelling get you down

February 14, 2010 – 1:23 pm

Some of us have got terrible spelling, some of us could recite the entire dictionary without mistakes! But we all have words that trip us up. This list covers some of the most troublesome words.

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