Paula’s Writing Tricks
YEP, RECRUITERS ONLY SPEND 7.4 SEC. ON YOUR RESUME
Sending out your resume? Be prepared to share it with a VERY busy recruiter. TheLadders used eye-tracking software to study how 30,000 recruiters looked at resumes. They discovered that recruiters spend only 7.4 seconds on a resume before making a decision. ...
1 SPACE AFTER A PERIOD—OR 2 SPACES?
Should you use 1 space after a period—or 2 spaces? There are lots of opinions about this, and several studies have even been done to answer this question. If you ask The Chicago Manual of Style, they recommend 1 space after a period. But other publications argue for...
HIRING A WRITER? Here are 9 interview questions to ask
No matter what type of writer you’re looking for—technical writer, training developer, proposal writer, marketing writer, or business writer—here are 9 interview questions that I’ve used in the past with good results: Tell me about the types of documents you’ve...
HOW TO WRITE A “LIGHTNING-FAST” FIRST DRAFT
BY PAULA PETERS, author of The Ultimate Marketing Toolkit We are pressured to write faster and faster—and every day, that pressure has steadily grown throughout my 19 years in business. For example, in 2005, a reasonable deadline for a 1,000-word technical article...
9 STRATEGIES TECHNICAL WRITERS USE TO PROOFREAD DOCUMENTS + EMAILS
BY PAULA PETERS, author of The Ultimate Marketing Toolkit There are lots of good ways to proofread a document quickly and efficiently, but it’s hard to be perfect—unless you use multiple proofreaders, or unless you do multiple rounds of proofreading. This is...