Red Pony Express - Newsletter Archive

Current Edition

• Issue #18, December 2011

Previous Editions

• Issue #17, October 2011
  • Don't let the manual be an afterthought
  • The punctuation doctor—dashes
  • Who am I writing for?

• Issue #16, August 2011
  • Google now rewarding originality
  • The value of handwriting
  • Feeling quirky?

• Issue #15, June 2011
  • Harnessing the power of words
  • Fix your grammar and improve your business
  • Drop everything! I before me except after c

• Issue #14, April 2011
  • How am I coming across?
  • Putting in a good Word
  • Episodes in the archaeology of spelling

• Issue #13, February 2011
  • Imagine a life lived without language
  • Simplify your language or suffer the consequences!
  • Careful with that spell-checker

 

• Issue #12, December 2010

• Document exchange services
• Getting the point across
• The passive voice

 

• Issue #11, October 2010

• Putting yourself in your client's shoes
• Positioning quotation marks
• The importance of document version control

 

• Issue #10, August 2010

• Creating a compelling executive summary
• Turning nouns into verbs
• Words that don't mean what you think they mean

 

• Issue #9, June 2010

• Managing a large document
• Pushing the envelope
• Spelling confusions

 

• Issue #8, April 2010

• Writing for the web
• Rogue adjectives and adverbs
• Document localisation

 

• Issue #7, February 2010

• Using industry awards for a PR boost
• The comma
• What have the French ever done for us?

 

• Issue #6, December 2009

• Writing a tender and living to tell the tale (Part 2)
• Bulleted lists

 

• Issue #5, October 2009

• Writing a tender and living to tell the tale (Part 1)
• Capital letters

 

• Issue #4, August 2009

• Help documentation
• The dash
• Gender-neutral language

 

• Issue #3, June 2009

• Developing a Style Guide
• The semicolon
• Politics and the English language

 

• Issue #2, April 2009

• Using Microsoft Word templates
• Wielding the apostrophe with confidence
• Lorem ipsum

 

• Issue #1, February 2009

• Welcome to the Red Pony Express
• The case for case studies
• Ending a sentence on a preposition