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Spelling Power  by: Kathleen Jerauld-Brack It can make you or break you. The spell checker on your computer is great, but it doesn’t always pick up sound-a-likes. Their, there, they’re for instance. How important is it? For the majority of people who can spell it makes all the difference. In one instance, I recently observed an employer scan an applicant’s resume remarking delightedly that the person had just about all the credentials she was looking for; but then along came the spelling errors. The employer’s eyes glazed over and the resume was tossed on the outbound stack. Spelling errors seem to be rampant, and can be as bad as a stain on your shirt when dressing for an interview. And before you shrug me off as a frustrated old English teacher (I’m not), you might want to consider that if all you have are your words to represent you on the Internet and you don’t choose and spell them carefully, you are quite apt to lose your credibility. Although regular use of a dictionary will help, and a spell checker will find many, the sound-a-likes are quite elusive. Sound-a-likes are called homophones. They are words that sound the same but have different meanings. For example: there - their - they’re; meet - meat; stares - stairs; fare – fair; herd – heard; currant – current; buy – by – bye; rain - rein – reign. Its and it’s are similar errors, but for different reasons. You can buy a grammar book in paperback for about $5.00. Most of them have the common spelling and grammatical error pages right in the front. If you familiarize yourself with those, and it reflects in your articles and web pages, then you have just made a huge step in giving yourself a more knowledgeable and competent appearance. For a business person, it can make all the difference. About The Author Copyright by the author 4/25/2005 All rights reserved. Kathleen–Jerauld Brack, BFA. Webmaster of BestPlacetoEat.com, and BestRestaurants.us. This article was posted on April 25, 2005   View More Videos from the "Online Business" category: Google Keyword Tool Quick way to make money on eBay with a FREE tool! Configuring POP2EXCHANGE in GFi MailEssentials - FrugalTech Tax Tips for Business Owners   Read More Articles from the "Online Business" Category: Your Thinking To Breed Success by Dave Jones Domain Name and Web Hosting Hell by Ed Zivkovic Tired Of Information Overload And Having Your Brain Turn To Mush? by Andre Johnson How to Make Legitimate Money Online by Tim Rohrer How To Write Effective And Unique Articles That Are Optimized for the Search Engines by Karl Augustine A New Look For Business In The Future by Paul Marsland Online Businesses Ideas by Michael Moume Programmable Signs by Paula Jones Are those Money Making Opportunities Real? by Vipul Gupta The 10 Most Amazing Ways To Jump Start Your Sales by Frank Bauer << Back to "Online Business" Index

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