Beware of SAT Goof!

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A big heads up to anyone prepping for the SAT using the College Board’s Official SAT Study Guide. That’s the newer version, the one with eight practice tests. In the Reading section of Test 3 … Read More

Lets Take a Break . . . for Baseball

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Once upon a time I was a sportswriter, and most of the time I covered baseball. I wrote this recently for Athlon Sports’ baseball preview issue. In every sport there are players we must watch. … Read More

What Every Writer Should Also Know

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Very Unique Is Very Bad: Unique means one of a kind, something with no equal. It doesn’t get any better than that, folks. So what does “very unique” mean? None of a kind? Michael Jordan … Read More

What Every Writer Should Know

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1 – Less is more. This is a constant battle. The fewer words you use the better off you are. If you write carelessly and redundantly, you are weakening your arguments because you’re not being … Read More