Declan Chellar

And I’ll say it again. Spelling and punctuation are important. When you make mistakes, people tend to focus more on your lack of literacy than on your message.

I have worked in the IT industry for twelve years and before that I taught English as a foreign language for eight years. During my first months in IT, I was sent on a two-day course on presentation skills. At the end of the course, everyone had to prepare and deliver a six-minute presentation. We [...]

What is it about the apostrophe that make’s people want to throw it in any time they see the letter s at the end of a word? Its common enough to see so-called “grocers apostrophe’s” in shop’s, but why is it that TV company’s let semi-literate people compose text that is going to appear on [...]

The first Hallowe’en I can remember was when I was five years of age. I asked my father to bring me home a mask. What type of mask did I want? A “scary” mask, I told him. That evening my father arrived home with a brown paper bag. I was all excited until I saw [...]