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Get It Write Online | Writing Skills Seminars and Consulting Services HomeLatest ArticleServicesCourses, Seminars, and Conference PresentationsGrammar EssentialsPunctuation, Mechanics, and UsageLogic, Clarity, and PrecisionCustomized WorkshopsShort, Interactive PresentationsOnline AcademyArticle ArchiveCustom Style ManualsResourcesRecommended Books and GiftsAboutClient ListTestimonialsPhilosophyContact Writing Skills Training andResourcesOur PurposeGet It Write offers services for people who realize that the writtenword makes a powerful and lasting impression.Explore moreWhat We OfferGet It Write offers customized writing skills seminars as well as free access to articles on common grammar, mechanics, and usage issues.Face-to-Face SeminarsWe offer seminars ranging in length from one hour to several days and covering a wide range of writing-related issues: grammar, mechanics, usage, clarity, organization, focus, development, an economy of language, and audience awareness. Read moreArticlesEach week, we publish articles about the most popular English grammar and writing questions that we receive as English educators. We cover grammar, mechanics, usage, punctuation, pronouns, and other popular topics.Read moreOnline CoursesGet It Write has a new online academy, with one course available now and two more by the end of summer 2020. Learn at your own pace from video lectures, content quizzes, practice exercises, and video reviews.Read moreAs a freelancer I have often consulted books and websites for grammatical advice.  Dr. Tuten is the best I've found.  She is the only one who anticipated my questions with straightforward answers and clear examples.  I look forward to consulting Get It Write Online every time I am confronted by a grammatical quandary.Walter N.Freelance WriterA gifted lecturer who delivers content in an interactive and comprehensive fashion, Nancy has mastered the art of engaged presentations designed to enhance the writing  skills of her audience.The Hon. Justice Gillian LuckyHigh Court of Trinidad and Tobago, Chair, Judicial Education InstituteThe program is outstanding. Nancy makes complex topics accessible with her clear explanations and helpful materials.  Her interactive program and lively presentation style (and sense of humor) make learning easy and enjoyable.Margaret PerrySenior State and Federal Appellate AttorneyThis course was precisely what I needed. I cannot recall a single issue we covered that will not be extremely helpful. I now realize how much help I need to be effective in my written communication.Fred LancasterNational Account Manager, United Parcel ServiceNancy (Tuten) makes what could be a dry subject very interesting. She works to make the content relevant. The course was excellent.Samantha WilliamsDirector of Training and Development, S.C. Department of Public SafetyMy entire office should enroll in this workshop. I wish I had taken it sooner. In the past, some of this information was difficult for me to understand, but not today.Bonnie ZieglerPersonnel Services, S.C. Budget and Control Board Internal OperationsYour excellent and informative articles have helped to demystify, and put straight, a number of grammatical quandaries I had!  I appreciate your taking complex issues and providing crystal-clear explanations in common-sense language, with lucid and logical examples to test one’s knowledge.Robert MarshallChartered Insurance Practitioner, Erskine Murray Insurance BrokersLatest ArticlesPopular Articles Bring and Take Knowing when to use bring and take can be confusing. Can you tell if any of the following sentences use bring correctly? When you go to...Read MoreNancy Tuten11 September 2020Passive Voice and Active VoiceThose of us whose word-processing software includes a grammar checker have probably encountered the green squiggly line of doom wagging an accusatory finger at a...Read MoreNancy Tuten29 August 2020The Oxford (or Serial) Comma: Using a Comma before and in a ListWriters frequently wonder whether a comma should go before the conjunction and in a list of three or more items. Despite the fact that not all...Read MoreNancy Tuten6 August 2020“You’re Still on My Lawn!”: Our Resident Curmudgeon Bemoans Six Lost CausesWord confusion and language-related lost causes are no strangers to this site. We have explored the lost distinction between the words nauseous and nauseating, the...Read MoreRon Cooper20 July 2020Style Manuals vs. DictionariesWhile there are certainly some hard-and-fast grammar rules (verbs must agree in number with their subjects, for example), many of the guidelines that people regard...Read MoreNancy Tuten9 July 2020Uncharted vs. UncharteredThe corona-virus disease pandemic, which started late in 2019 (thus the name COVID-19), has given rise to increased use of a few confusing phrases and...Read MoreNancy Tuten30 June 2020Hyphens, Em Dashes, and En Dashes: When to Use Them and How to Type ThemThe hyphen, the em dash, and the en dash are all horizontal marks of varying lengths. Each functions differently from the others. Below we define...Read MoreNancy Tuten6 April 2020Inserting Characters and Symbols That Aren t on Computer or Smart Phone KeyboardsOur word processing software and enhanced keyboards can work magic, especially in regard to inserting characters and symbols that aren t on our Roman alphabet keyboards....Read MoreNancy Tuten6 November 2019 Lie or Lay ?This website addresses a number of confusing word pairs, including effect and affect, sit and set, and bad and badly, just to name a few. But...Read MoreNancy Tuten3 August 2019Starting Sentences with And or But One of our subscribers wrote to ask about starting sentences with and or but. She wondered whether it is considered grammatically correct to do so....Read MoreNancy Tuten26 March 2020 Which or That ?While both which and that can be used in other constructions, the confusion usually arises when they are being used as relative pronouns to introduce adjective (or relative)...Read MoreNancy Tuten22 August 2019When Should We Hyphenate Compound Words?When two words come together to create a single new idea that expresses meaning different from that of either of the individual words, the result...Read MoreNancy Tuten30 May 2019View moreAbout The InstructorNancy founded Get It Write in 1991. Since then, she has taught hundreds of seminars on writing-related issues to professionals in the workforce, including employees of state and local governments, judges and staff members of state and federal court systems, bankers, and attorneys (see her client list).From 1988 to 2019, she taught writing and literature at Columbia College. A tenured full-professor holding an endowed chair, she served as dean of the Division of Communication, Languages, and Literatures for eight years and directed the writing-across-the-curriculum program for fifteen years.InquiryOptionsConsent ManagementCookie SettingsAdvertisingAnalyticsConsent ManagementData Protection PolicyGet It Write OnlineLast updated 1/29/19DefinitionsBusiness means Get It Write Online.GDPR means the General Data Protection Regulation.Responsible Person means Nancy Tuten.Register of Systems means a register of all systems or contexts in which personal data is processed by the Business.1. Data protection principlesThe Business is committed to processing data in accordance with its responsibilities under the GDPR. Article 5 of the GDPR requires that personal data shall bea. processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to individuals;b. collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes;c. adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed;d. accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay;e. kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed; personal data may be stored for longer periods insofar as the personal data will be processed solely for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes subject to implementation of the appropriate technical and organizational measures required by the GDPR in order to safeguard the rights and freedoms of individuals; andf. processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organizational measures.”2. General provisionsa. This policy applies to all personal data processed by the Business. b. The Responsible Person shall take responsibility for the Business’s ongoing compliance with this policy. c. This policy shall be reviewed at least annually. d. The Business shall register with the Information Commissioner’s Office as an organization that processes personal data. 3. Lawful, fair and transparent processing a. To ensure its processing of data is lawful, fair and transparent, the Business shall maintain a Register of Systems. b. The Register of Systems shall be reviewed at least annually. c. Individuals have the right to access their personal data and any such requests made to the Business shall be dealt with in a timely manner. 4. Lawful purposesa. All data processed by the Business must be done on one of the following lawful bases: consent, contract, legal obligation, vital interests, public task or legitimate interests (see ICO guidance for more information). b. The Business shall note the appropriate lawful basis in the Register of Systems.c. Where consent is relied upon as a lawful basis for processing data, evidence of opt-in consent shall be kept with the personal data. d. Where communications are sent to individuals based on their consent, the option for the individual to revoke their consent should be clearly available and systems should be in place to ensure such revocation is reflected accurately in the Business’s systems. 5. Data minimization: The Business shall ensure that personal data are adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed. 6. Accuracya. The Business shall take reasonable steps to ensure personal data is accurate. b. Where necessary for the lawful basis on which data is processed, steps shall be put in place to ensure that personal data is kept up to date. 7. Archiving / removala. To ensure that personal data is kept for no longer than necessary, the Business shall put in place an archiving policy for each area in which personal data is processed and review this process annually. b. The archiving policy shall consider what data should/must be retained, for how long, and why. 8. Securitya. The Business shall ensure that personal data is stored securely using modern software that is kept-up-to-date. b. Access to personal data shall be limited to personnel who need access, and appropriate security should be in place to avoid unauthorised sharing of information. c. When personal data is deleted this should be done safely such that the data is irrecoverable. d. Appropriate back-up and disaster recovery solutions shall be in place. 9. BreachIn the event of a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data, the Business shall promptly assess the risk to people’s rights and freedoms and if appropriate report this breach to the ICO (more information on the ICO website). END OF POLICYNecessaryAdvertisingShow targeted adsCookies Used

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