Archives for April 2019

Why Canadians love ghostwriting…and why they make the best ghostwriters

Canadians make the best ghostwriters, and they have a few extra reasons to love the benefits of ghostwriting.

Ghostwriting can be a very rewarding career. If you know how to organize ideas and how to use words to express them, you could be a ghostwriter.

If you are Canadian, there are a few extra reasons why you might want to be a ghostwriter. Let’s look at those, but first let’s look at the reasons why anybody might want to be a ghostwriter. [Read more…]

A plain language guide from Alberta to make Canadian writing more readable

Canadians need to write clearer, so that readers understand what they write. This guide from the Alberta government’s education ministry can help.

Canadians speak in plain language. But they often write in…well…convoluted, difficult to read language. This is not unique to Canada, by the way.

The Canada.ca content style guide can help. It gives a lot of great advice on how to write clearer, easier-to-read text.

Like the Canada.ca guide, the Guidelines for Writers and Editors (Digital Design and Resource Authorization Branch) is a digital style guide. That means it is written to respond to how people read on the Internet. [Read more…]