by Darrell Croker | Jan 29, 2023 | Personal Writing, Writing and Editing
RECENT WORK January 2023 Contracting to Engineering Business – sovereign capability component of significant Defence tender – tender of the week (see LinkedIn) Write For Impact – coaching for Queensland Health EagleView Coaching – LinkedIn blogs Kuttabul Capital...
by Darrell Croker | Dec 17, 2019 | Newcastle Herald, Personal Writing, Writing and Editing
Les and Clive, they would say that Les and Clive, they would say that Good business writing pays attention to salutations, which is easy at this time of year. Merry Christmas. It hardly seems 12 months since this column was talking about The Spectator’s choice...
by Darrell Croker | Nov 11, 2019 | Newcastle Herald, Personal Writing, Writing and Editing
Easy to judge Easy to judge There are six degrees of separation, and now seven words of identification. US university Yale recently released a study showing job interviewees are judged based on their social status seconds after they start to speak. The researchers...
by Darrell Croker | Oct 7, 2019 | Newcastle Herald, Personal Writing, Writing and Editing
Degrees, decrees and the mission of communication Degrees, decrees and the mission of communication Student teachers in South Australia who failed compulsory literacy and numeracy tests and therefore cannot graduate and register professionally, are threatening a class...
by Darrell Croker | Sep 3, 2019 | Newcastle Herald, Personal Writing, Writing and Editing
Pressure placed on punctuation Pressure placed on punctuation The blurb for the just-released Semicolon:How a Misunderstood Punctuation Mark Can Improve Your Writing, Enrich Your Reading and Even Change Your Life, describes it as “a biography of a much misunderstood...
