Although prepositional phrases add valuable information to sentences, their overuse hinders engaging writing. Therefore, Dragoman translators and editors avoid them where possible and revise prepositional phrases indicating ownership. Let’s consider [...]
Why Terminology Management Matters Building a brand identity may be one of the toughest challenges that businesses face today, and making that identity resonate with customers in a foreign language [...]
Headlines: Packing a Punch At Dragoman, we translate so many releases almost on a daily basis. StrongHeadlines Strong headlines are shorter, written in active voice and they put the brand / topic at the begining or heart of the sentence.
The AP Stylebook cautions against using abbreviations or acronyms that the reader would not quickly recognize, and Dragoman prefers spelling out acronyms and abbreviations on first reference. Incorrect: The CBRT's [...]
The following text is taken verbatim from the book, 300 Days of Better Writing: A daily handbook for improving your writing written by David Bowman (2010) "Artificial superlatives are words [...]
The following text is taken verbatim from the book, 300 Days of Better Writing: A daily handbook for improving your writing written by David Bowman (2010) “An introductory adverbial phrase is a [...]
The following text is taken verbatim from the book, 300 Days of Better Writing: A daily handbook for improving your writing written by David Bowman (2010) “(Note to our friends [...]
A percentage point or percent point is the unit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages. For example, moving up from 20% to 42% is a 22-percentage point increase, but [...]
Using too many 'thats' will rob your sentences of their pace and spontaneity. This is especially true for verbs of speech or thought such as say, think, know and so on. [...]
Writing long sentences will alienate your readers and would even cost you your customers. Try to shorten your sentences whenever possible: Long: The company will invest $2billion in [...]