I recently finished reading a book called Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain. The book looks at how in our culture, extrovert qualities and personalities are valued and respected more highly than introverted personality traits. Being an extrovert is seen as being more desirable. Extroverts are Read more about Is your writing introvert or extrovert?[…]

When it comes to grammar do you confuse your “its” and “it’s”? Struggle with ‘your’ and “you’re” and never quite know whether to uses “affect” or “effect”? Well have a look at this cool infographic article I found on Copyblogger, that might just be able to help you out. Like this infographic? Get more copywriting Read more about Tip of the Day – 15 Grammar Goofs that make you look silly[…]

I had a fairly successful end to 2011. In the week before Christmas I discovered I’d passed my NCTJ (National Council for the training of journalists), News writing exam. You probably don’t realise how much pleasure it gives me saying that. The NCTJ news writing exam is without question the most difficult exam I’ve ever Read more about 6 things I learned from passing my NCTJ news writing exam[…]