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When language-mutilator Yogi Berra said that something was “like ‘deja vu’ all over again,” everybody laughed. Lately I get the feeling that some people who say it don’t know it’s a joke. Yogi’s “belts and suspenders” approach to
Compound nouns are of three kinds: open, hyphenated, and closed. As the names imply, “open compounds” are written as separate words, “hyphenated compounds” are written with one or more hyphens, and “closed compounds” are written as a single
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Writing sometimes is a skill most people take for granted because they feel once you are learned then you can write. This is why as a writer, you should work twice as hard as people in other professions like
If creative writing is your passion, then you’d probably enjoy a career in which you could spend all day (or at least most of the day) pursuing that passion. But creative writing is an artistic pursuit, and we all know that
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“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill Criticism is the reward of every writer's
Getting a job in Nigeria is considered difficult; however, in a world where content marketing has become a trend, companies such as magazines, newspapers, and blog owners are in regular need of contents. So, even if you don’t have
Writing sometimes is a skill most people take for granted because they feel once you are learned then you can write. This is why as a writer, you should work twice as hard as people in other professions like
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