How to Type Faster: The Complete Guide

  This article contains a comprehensive list of tips that will show you how to type faster, and how to stay healthy and comfortable while you’re doing it. The tips here cover everything from how to improve your typing technique, to how to set up your workspace, to how to decide whether you should change …

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How to Improve Your Writing: A Simple but Comprehensive Guide

  Writing is a skill. This means that, just like any other skill, you can improve it through active practice, despite the fact that many people mistakenly believe that their writing ability depends only on their natural talent. In the following article, you will see what you can do in order to improve your writing, …

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How to Sew: A Brief and Basic Guide

  Sooner or later, the things that you use start falling apart. Clothes are no exceptions, and eventually they start to tear, split at the seams, lose buttons, or suffer from other minor forms of damage. When this happens, a lot of people tend to just throw the item away. However, in most cases you …

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Writing Tips from David Ogilvy

  David Ogilvy (1911-1999), who is often hailed as the “Father of Advertising”, was a US marketing tycoon, and a co-founder of Ogilvy & Mather, one of the largest marketing companies in the world. Ogilvy was best known for advocating two important concepts in marketing. The first concept was that marketing decisions should be driven by …

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“The Horse Raced Past the Barn Fell”: A Guide to Garden Path Sentences

  A garden path sentence is a sentence with an ambiguous part, that leads the reader to initially assume a certain interpretation for the sentence, until they reach a point where the ambiguity is resolved and this initial interpretation is shown to be wrong. Essentially, when you read a garden path sentence, you encounter an ambiguous …

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How to Solve Technical Issues: A Simple Flowchart

Solving technical issues is generally simpler than most people think. In fact, by following the steps outlined in the upcoming flowchart, you will be able to solve nearly all of the issues that you encounter, whether they’re in your computer, in your phone, or in any of your other devices. If you have a friend …

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The NATO Phonetic Alphabet: What It Is and How to Use It

  A phonetic alphabet is an alphabet in which each letter is represented by a codeword that starts with that letter. For example, in a phonetic alphabet, the letter ‘B’ could be represented by the word ‘Bravo’, while the letter ‘P’ could be represented by the word ‘Papa’. The NATO phonetic alphabet, which uses a standardized set …

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How to Proofread Your Writing Effectively

  Did you ever spend hours going over the same document again and again, and found yourself automatically skipping over whole words and sentences, because you already read this text so many times that your brain just goes on autopilot? Proofreading is an important but tedious part of writing. The problem is that since your brain …

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