Rob’s Megaphone

14 Interesting Words 
How many words are in your vocabulary? The average high school graduate is said to know about 10,000 words. The average 4-year college graduate is said to know about 20,000 words. Do you have room for any more words in your vocabulary?Here are some interesting words, which you may not know.Upon learning an interesting [...]

Rob’s Rules for Writing
(This deep-links post revisits some of my previous posts)
Good writing requires tools, rules, and jewels.
 I hope you’ll find a new tool here to help craft your next masterpiece. Many of us have the same tools in our writing toolbox, but some may have gotten a little rusty. Rules were made to be [...]

English has got to be one of the toughest languages to learn. Even our exceptions to the rules have exceptions.
Here are some of my recent mental meanderings on mixed up meanings.
Confusing homophones
1.                  This bimonthly publication comes out every other month, and that bimonthly publication comes             
                              out twice a month. Both sentences are correct.
2.                  Loan (verb) me [...]

A cliché and is an expression that at its birth was both original and clever. But clever expressions spread like wildfire (I couldn’t resist that one!), and over the passage of time such expressions become trite and overused. Readers often see clichés as signs of laziness and/or lack of creativity. http://robsmegaphone.com/2008/02/21/layers-of-revision/

But just for today, let’s embrace the cliché.

 How many words are in your vocabulary? The average high school graduate is said to know about 10,000 words. The average 4-year college graduate is said to know about 20,000 words. Do you have room for any more words in your vocabulary?
 
 
 

 
Here are some interesting words, which you may not know.
Upon learning an interesting word, [...]

When you stop and think about it, words are pretty darn important. They are symbols for our ideas which we code into a form that others can understand. With differences in language, culture, experiences, and education, it is a wonder we can communicate at all. Words often have multiple definitions, and their definitions have varying [...]

Twelve Interesting Words
 How many words are in your vocabulary? The average high school graduate is said to know about 10,000 words. The average 4-year college graduate is said to know about 20,000 words. Do you have room for any more words in your vocabulary?
Here are some interesting words, which you may not know.
Upon learning an interesting [...]

I loved this post from One Cool Site. Please have a look on how to become a better blogger. This post (part 4) deals with the essentials of branding, organizations, content, and seo elements. I use this blog often for tips to improve my blog and my writing.
Branding: Defining your blog’s uniqueness is difficult but [...]

 How many words are in your vocabulary? The average high school graduate is said to know about 10,000 words. The average 4-year college graduate is said to know about 20,000 words. Do you have room for any more words in your vocabulary?
Here are some interesting words, which you may not know.
Upon learning an interesting word, [...]

In the back of the top shelf of your writing toolbox, sits three writing tools that often get dusty due to neglect. This post is meant to be a stepladder to help reach these tools to prepare them for more frequent use. If you’re like most people, alliteration, parallelism, and variety in sentence structure, are not the hammers, [...]