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AI, Datenschutz, and Us
Are your staff and vendors sharing your proprietary information with AI for training purposes?
Melissa Marino
Jan 233 min read
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Choosing a Translator: Hint – It isn’t us
Although I have done a translation or two for very special clients on occasion, make no mistake, EditPro is not a translation service. I...
Melissa Marino, Lead Editor
Mar 27, 20196 min read
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Gender, Disability, Diversity - Guidance on Language
What I will write here either will help or irritate you, enlighten or frustrate you. Where something is a matter of my personal...
Melissa Marino, Lead Editor
Jan 30, 20196 min read
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An audience-centered life
I know it’s been a long time since my last blog post and for that I apologize. It’s been a lucky few months for me; months packed with...
Melissa Marino, Lead Editor
Dec 3, 20186 min read
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What to do with colons and semicolons
Nothing will stop the eye of a reader faster than incorrect spelling or punctuation. Not only do the German and English languages...
Melissa Marino, Lead Editor
Aug 1, 20183 min read
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Hence, Thus, Thereby, Therefore, Shall and other formal language that we don’t use in business writi
If you learned English mainly in the German educational system, this might be the most important blog post you read here about writing...
Melissa Marino, Lead Editor
Jul 19, 20183 min read
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The $5 Million Comma
We add it to almost every document we edit. We admonish our customers to adopt it and use it habitually. We are not following a fad or a...
Melissa Marino, Lead Editor
Jul 12, 20183 min read
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Proofread, Edit, or Rewrite: How do you know what your document needs?
At EditPro, we specialize in the proofreading, editing, and rewriting of English language documents of all kinds. Whether it is marketing...
Melissa Marino, Lead Editor
Jun 8, 20183 min read
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How Our Editing Brings Your Message Into Focus
Unclear writing harms your message and may make communication with your readers difficult. Recently, one of our lead editors was asked to...
Melissa Marino
May 15, 20183 min read
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How we're going to treat you or "Everything I needed to know about customer care I learned from Steve"
After a rather unsuccessful start with my first employer after college, I found myself looking for a second job. My first boss referred...
Melissa Marino
Feb 25, 20186 min read
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Making the Mundane Sexy: Copy for a highly technical metering device and associated apps
For the following, the target audience was administrative staff and elected officials of small towns and municipalities. The technical...
Melissa Marino
Dec 1, 20173 min read
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Article for the employee magazine of a large US employer
I wrote this after being contacted by a former colleague whose company was about to merge with a German company. The target audience were...
Melissa Marino
Aug 2, 20178 min read
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The very rewarding daily work of helping customers write manuals, handbooks, and other internal documents
Not too long ago, a customer requested assistance in assembling a manual for EMEAAP. The document was mostly already written, but they...
Melissa Marino
Jun 8, 20172 min read
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