On October 17, 2009
Spellchecker Drives a Stake Through Vampire Words
This is a guest post by Mike Marshall. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.
Ali Hale’s recent CopyBlogger post spoke about Vampire Words: the conditional words like “usually”, “typically”, “maybe”, or “generally” that can portray a lack of confidence, muddle your message, and suck the life from your writing. If you fall prey to these words in your writings, there are a few tools within Microsoft Word that can help you drive a stake through the heart of these vampire words.
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