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If a prospective employer has two candidates in front of her with relatively equal skill-levels, the one who writes more effectively will probably get the position. An applicant's superior writing skills may even trump the mustard stains on her top from lunch, beating out the exquisitely dressed prepster who never saw an infinitive that didn't need splitting, or who often leaves a subject pining over the verb that never showed up.

TIPS

Eliminate the word, hopefully.
Eliminate the phrase, speaks volumes.
Eliminate . . . well . . . as in: "My rough draft is, well, rough."
Eliminate the word, behoove, in all of its forms. We just don't like it.
Eliminate the phrase, . . . at the end of the day . . .
Don't use big words just to show off.
Don't avoid a big word just because you don't like people who use big words to show off.

Hopefully, at the end of the day, these inspirational, informational tips will speak volumes about writing that is of such a high caliber that it is to be considered good (and efficacious). It has behooved me to notice that in every instance of myself perusing an example of these nauseatingly tired words and phrases, which continue to be depleted in strength, void of energy, and excruciatingly lacking in freshness, I get, well, nauseous.

A LITTLE NOTE ON WRITING FOR FOREIGN CULTURES

How do I insult thee? Let me count the ways: If I fail to consider inter-culturalization during the course of my translation, my localization will result in misinterpretation, no assimilation, and will have failed for lack of internationalization; therefore, this would preclude the globalization of my new innovation (please, no redundancy condemnation), which was an origination from my imagination. But now it would be a negation of my creation--the deprivation of which would be a bane to civilization. And an in-effectuation for my organization. This has been my contemplation of cultural extrapolation.

Consummation.

NOTE TO SELF:

Remember to remind our readers to be vigilant in observing his pronoun agreement issues and knowing its importance. There are many examples of these problems and its many instances of their wrong usage. We should strive to recognize pronoun agreement issues and fix it.

- the editors

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