{"id":2255,"date":"2011-06-16T10:06:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T00:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2011-06-14T16:29:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T06:29:35","slug":"you-are-making-an-impression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/06\/you-are-making-an-impression\/","title":{"rendered":"You are making an impression&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh. That&#8217;s my immediate response to a blog post I just read &#8211; sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t give a good impression of that blog or writer does it? Every time you write something that goes public, it affects how people view you &#8211; yet some people just don&#8217;t seem to get that. What&#8217;s worse is that this was a <a title=\"reading guest blog posts\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/06\/why-read-a-guest-blogger\">guest post<\/a> on another blog so I assume they didn&#8217;t review it before accepting it. Silly as I closed the site after this post, and the rest may be great for all I&#8217;ll ever know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I started reading the post in good faith but the poor expression made me skim the second half rather than read it which is never a good sign. I honestly only kept reading because I hoped the content would improve and justify it&#8217;s existence on a site I was reviewing. It didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Although appearing to be an article giving information, it was a poorly disguised ad for why company X is a good choice for design work &#8211; namely because they are young designers. I commented back as I don&#8217;t believe all young designers are good, nor all experienced designers lack passion.<\/p>\n<p>Had I been given that article to edit or at least comment on, my suggestions for this article would have been:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"making your writing flow\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2010\/06\/maintaining-the-flow-of-ideas\/\">make sure it all flows<\/a> and that each sentence make sense<\/li>\n<li>give balanced information (eg &#8220;while an older designer has experience, remember that new designers are keen to impress and may be passionate about their work&#8221; or &#8220;new designers have a lot to offer and you may find they charge less to get experience&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>introduce any specifics in the article, not just the heading (in this case the heading mentions web design but the article starts with &#8216;designing is a creative field&#8217;\u00a0&#8211; designing is more than websites)<\/li>\n<li>use good grammar and punctuation (&#8220;give you the brand image as promised because; they want to earn a good name&#8221; does not need any punctuation in the middle and certainly not a semi-colon)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just as I was leaving the page, I noticed the writer&#8217;s bio and sighed again. <a title=\"over using capital letters\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/01\/capital-letters\/\">Nearly every word started with a capital letter<\/a> (which is so annoying and completely unnecessary) and he claimed to be a &#8216;professional content writer&#8217;. With that example of his writing skills, he is not making a good impression for himself or the web design company paying him to write this article.<\/p>\n<p>How do you respond to such poor examples of work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh. That&#8217;s my immediate response to a blog post I just read &#8211; sigh. Doesn&#8217;t give a good impression of that blog or writer does it? Every time you write something that goes public, it affects how people view you &#8211; yet some people just don&#8217;t seem to get that. 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