Tips Tuesday

Here are excerpts from the most recent tips on SlawTips, the site that each week offers up useful advice, short and to the point, on practice, research, writing and technology.

Research & Writing

Bad HR Jargon
Neil Guthrie

We’ve covered bad business jargon in this space, but other fields of endeavour are guilty of polluting the language with their specialist lingo. Human resources (itself a piece of HR jargon; it used to be personnel or, in a more sexist age, manpower) comes to mind. …

Technology

Refresh Your RSS Reader
Emma Durand-Wood

Today’s tip is part tech, part research. It’s a simple reminder to give a little love to your RSS reader. (You ARE using an RSS reader, aren’t you? You’re not? Here’s a nice primer on why RSS is more important than ever in 2018.) …