Business Writing – The Art of Bullet Lists. It’s easy to go wrong with bullet lists. Should it have a period at the end? Should it start with a capital letter? Here are some guidelines to make things simple. Bullet Lists v Number Lists When do you use bullets instead of numbers? Use number lists to: Identify a sequence of actions to be taken.Show the reader which steps to follow.If there are a specific number of items you want to highlight, e.g.
Use bullet lists to: Outline a set of instructions, e.g. pack the following before traveling. Capitalize Bullet Lists When to capitalize the first letter in a bulleted item. Start each bulleted item with a capital letter. Capitalize proper nouns and the first word of a complete sentence. Bullet Lists Periods, Full stops and Punctuation When should you use periods (full stops) and have bulleted items end without punctuation? Use periods after independent clauses, dependent clauses, or long phrases that are displayed on separate lines in a list. For example: Criminal Activities. Violent history. Fifty Writing Tools: Quick List. Use this quick list of Writing Tools as a handy reference. Copy it and keep it in your wallet or journal, or near your desk or keyboard. Share it and add to it. I. Nuts and Bolts 1. Strong verbs create action, save words, and reveal the players.4. 6.
II. 11. Dig for the concrete and specific, details that appeal to the senses.15. III. 24. 28. IV. 40. All of these tips are available via podcast through iTunes. To purchase a copy of “Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer,” visit your local or online bookstore or click here (as an Amazon affiliate, Poynter will receive a small cut of the profit). Helping Writers Become Authors: Most Common Mistakes Series: 10 Stylistic Mistakes Sabotaging Your Story. Vegetable beings? Love and other uncertainities? I curate several Scoop-its. One is Home and Garden. While checking the recommendations for garden sites, I saw this post. The flowers were pretty, but the content - well, you read it and see what you think. On a scale of bad to the worst, how would you rate this? (The change of color in the text is my doing.) The flowers and their characteristics What's the most beautiful and significant than a flower?
Note: If I thought this was written by a sincere person, I would not make fun of it. Preventing goof-ups: 10 proofreading tips. 15 Frequently Confused Pairs of Adjectives. By Mark Nichol Some of these similar-looking words do have, among various meanings, the same sense, but their primary definitions are quite different. Know these distinctions: 1. ambiguous/ambivalent: To be ambiguous is be able to be understood in more than one way (or, less commonly, of uncertain identity); to be ambivalent is to express uncertainty or contradictory opinions.
(The latter term is also distinct from indifferent, which implies a lack of opinion or concern.) 2. alternate/alternative: To be alternate is to occur by turns or in a pattern that skips from one side to the other, or to provide another possibility; to be alternative is to offer a choice, or to be a variation from a norm. 3. abstruse/obtuse: Something abstruse is, because of complexity, something not easily comprehended; something obtuse is unclear because or careless or imprecise information. 6. climatic/climactic: Climatic refers to climate; climactic applies to a climax.