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Copywriting Techniques - How to Optimise Your HTML Code for Search Engines

When it comes to designing your web page, you must design it to rank among the top sites in search engines. This is the basic rule, the line that every copywriter has to follow. Besides your META tags, the title, keywords, image, ALT text, text, and the overall design together form the position your website […]

Copywriting Techniques - General Introduction to The AD

You might be having a wonderful business, one that is leader #1 in its field, yet it is not all about the customer. You need to be absolutely honest to yourself and admit: the content and style of your marketing material may not be up to the challenge.
Copywriting will provide your advertising material with […]

1865 - Present: America Still at War with Itself

When the Civil War ended in April 1865, the struggle for a united America had not been over yet. Among the many problems and duties that accompanied the reconstruction, the most important, at least in my opinion, was that of the question of the nearly 4 million newly freed slaves. Where should these people turn […]

Word Formation in English

This article deals with two major groups:
1, words formed as grammatical syntagmas, i.e. combinations of full linguistic signs, and
2, words which are not grammatical syntagmas, i.e. which are composites not made up of full linguistic signs.
To the first group belong Compounding, Prefixation, Suffixation, Derivation by a Zero Morpheme and Backderivation,
to the second […]

Morgan Stanley and Vanilla

I have been to an interview today. Like everyone else, I also need to eat and get warm clothes for myself, so I attended an interview at the world’s leading investment bank, Morgan Stanley. You may not have realised, but I am a financial guru, a master of numeracy, a genious of investment banking, or […]

All is there because…

This blog is dedicated to my Dream. Dream with a capital “D”. A dream of an official bookworm in a dusty, clammy, but cosy bookshop, where every step you make makes the flooring crackle as you move along the tiny corridors aware not to tumble down the dusty pile of books. A country girl, I […]

Ajnabi

Ajnabi means different. An outsider, a man apart. This is whom I have become. I have left everything an accountant could have, mainly numbers at night turning sleep into a nightmare.
Now I am Ajnabi.
Writer, editor, proofreader, and too innocent to accept the world as it is. Without a twist of imagination, it seems too […]

Writing Style Guide and MLA

MLA - an acronym of three words that will determine your success if you are a writer. And as we all know, success IS everything. Do not just try to be good, know you are the best.
Modern Language Association guide is the most widely used and accepted guide when writing, quoting, and proofreading academic […]

Evening Post

The First is always the most precious, our own - until the second comes along. Then we deny our very own and think that whatever has been made of it has now got little to do with us. The First is an entity that is not related to any other, descending from a misty world, […]