Q: Should all job titles be capitalised? What is the industry norm? A: I love this question! As a rule, job titles are not capitalised when they come after the person’s name. Like this: ‘John Smith was appointed director of the Industrial Business Unit in 2001. Prior to this, he was general manager of a mine in [...]
Q: Is it draftsperson or draughtsperson? Drafting or draughting? Draftsman or draughtsman? A: As far as I know, or can tell from the experts I consulted on this, ‘draughting’ is used in relation to people who do drawings, rather than those of us who draft documents; i.e. write words. The drawers are draughtspersons. But the [...]
Q: When working on documents I currently use two spaces after a full stop and one after a comma – is this incorrect or is it acceptable? A: Current global best practice is one space across the board – after a full stop (period) and after general in-text punctuation. Contemporary word processing does things so [...]
Because I’m a copywriter, and not a salesperson, I don’t usually include sales articles on this blog. But a large portion of the copy I write is sales copy – specifically, web copy that does some sort of a selling job – and I sell myself. So I agree totally with what Jacques de Villers proposes [...]
I’m sure you’ll agree that some of the things people do via e-mail makes them look deeply stupid. And I’m sure you’ll nod your head sagely when I say that people who attach little photos of kittens to their e-mails should be taken outside and beaten with a mallet (the people, not the kittens). Not [...]
