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Jeannette DiLouie
Aug 10, 20183 min read
Don’t Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight – and Other Rules to Writing Political Commentary
As with any other kind of genre-specific book-composing efforts, writing political commentary has its guidelines and rules.
This only makes
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Jeannette DiLouie
Oct 4, 20173 min read
Can Conservatives and Liberals at Least Agree That Our Words Matter?
Our words matter. They’re worth something. Maybe even someone’s life.
I know this is a topic I’ve written about before. But circumstances l
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Jeannette DiLouie
Sep 1, 20174 min read
Writing Rule #35: Authors, Know Thy Marketing Targets!
For today’s Writing Rule, we’re going to delve a little more deeply into something I touched on for yesterday’s writing-related, marketing-f
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Jeannette DiLouie
May 4, 20173 min read
Professional Writing Tip: When You’re Arguing a Political Point, at Least Try to Sound Reasonable
Even though I’ve sworn off reading political news this year due to the very… um… passionate viewpoints everyone seems to have, I still like
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