Thursday, February 12, 2015

DO: Use Applicable Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation

Using appropriate grammar, spelling and punctuation is key when posting, or even writing and fulfilling specific business tasks. Good grammar, spelling and punctuation can improve your communication by increasing clarification. Many young individuals in today's society, have a very bad habit of using various slang words when writing and speaking. Grammar refers to using the right verbs, tenses, and rules. Whereas spelling refers to writing all the letters of a word correctly. Punctuation is using the correct commas, semi colons, periods and annotations in a professional manner.

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The best way to avoid any mistakes when writing and posting on electronic media is to follow 3 easy steps:
1.) Rough Draft: This is your first draft, where all your thoughts and ideas are written. This includes researching.
2.) Revising/Editing: Once your rough draft is done, editing is the next step. In this step looking at grammar, spelling and punctuation is necessary.
3.) Developing a good copy: Once you are done editing, make all the new changes to your rough draft, and your final paper is produced.

Therefore, by completing these three steps before posting your article or post on any electronic media, will allow you to be a successful writer.

Reading this post, Does this change the way you will write in the future?

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Ads in Electronic Media

Advertising is a huge part of Electronic Media and do any of you know how many ads you are exposed by on a daily basis? You might think it is in the hundreds but no, 5,000 and yes this is the real number. When was the last time you remember looking at any sport events without any ads in them or just even listening to the radio while you commute, most probably a long time ago.The fact that advertisings are everywhere this means that there must have some regulations as to what extent companies can go to sell their products/services. For example:


This is an example of some that you cannot do. No ads are so important that they need to promote crime along with their product. What they could show instead is maybe something that makes people think and want to clean their hands before they eat or put their hands in their mouths as their hands are most probably covered in bacteria, for example this:
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This is a better ad than the one before even though it is pretty gross but it is more effective and it is more realistic.
Is advertising the best way to promote business?
If not then in what other ways could/should businesses be promoted?