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How to Write a Well-Balanced, Meaningful Sentence

Enchanting Marketing

And it’s true that a simple structure helps communicate your message best. Overwrought sentences that try to impress rather than communicate. We go where people’s medical needs are greatest. Does the sentence actually communicate what you think it does? Such sentences sneak into my own writing, too.

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GPT-4 Basics: How It Works and How to Use It

Grammarly

Automate manual tasks, like medical documentation Disadvantages of GPT-4 GPT-4 is an advanced generative AI platform, but it has drawbacks. Here’s what to be on the lookout for when you use it. It can produce inaccurate answers All generative AI platforms are prone to producing inaccurate information.

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57 Metaphor Examples That’ll Pack Your Prose With Persuasion

Smart Blogger

If it’s used intentionally, a mixed metaphor can be an effective communication technique. Smarter companies think of tone of voice guidelines as bumpers on a bowling lane: They gently guide your communication in the right direction and help content creators avoid a gutter ball. Sonia Simone 3. Ann Handley 4. The Truman Show 40.

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40 Free Writing Contests: Legitimate Competitions With Cash Prizes

The Write Life

Hektoen International, an online journal dedicated to medical humanities, offers two prizes annually for essays of no more than 1,500 words: $5,000 is awarded to the winner and $2,500 to the first runner-up. Each year, it opens submissions for pieces in four genres: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and prose poetry.

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Beyond Inclusive Writing: 3 Lesser-Known Principles of Inclusive Content

Animalz

Inclusive writing is prose that recognizes diversity, honors differences, avoids assumptions, and creates equitable experiences and opportunities for your readers. Using diverse stock photos communicates that visually. What Is Inclusive Writing, and Why Does It Matter? The People You Feature.

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Brands Often Overlook This Superhero of Storytelling

Content Marketing Institute

OK, maybe writing this article as a comic script isn’t such a great idea, even if prose is at a disadvantage when discussing such a visual medium. A picture can help somebody to understand what you want them to do, whereas prose requires an abstract to concrete translation that not everybody’s going to be able to do.

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8 Rules for the Startup Marketer (or Anyone Who Wants to Think Like One)

Content Marketing Institute

For most of his 15-plus years in marketing, Vishal has been his organization’s only resource for marketing, communications, and media relations. The team used MailChimp to first communicate with leads via email. Vishal said something that took me a bit of wrestling to understand: “Your content is prose, but your workflow is poetry.”