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Launch Competition!
Dec 7th
I thought we’d honor the launch of our site with a competition!
We’re going to provide two $20 vouchers (or equivalent at Amazon) for two readers as a runner up prize, and a consultation as a grand prize. We’re also offering five honorary prizes, again at random, for one article write and one article rewrite over a month. These articles can be ghostwritten, or a guest post, but YOU get to choose the subject.
A consultation?
One of the key tennants of Forensic linguistics is that each of us has a unique set of words we use – called a corpus. These corpus’ are what makes us, and are a key part of our image. If your language use isn’t matching up with exactly what you want to project, if your image and your language is somehow, out of sync, you can use our suggestions to fix it. So we’re offering ‘corpus makeovers’.
How to enter
It’s simple – just comment and say that you’re entering – with a question about something you’d like to understand or find out about. Get an extra entry with a retweet of this post (please use @ciscopywriter to count your tweet). Get a free mini crit if you post this competition to your blog, (copy the post vertabim and link back, or do your own write up) plus get an extra three entries – so you can get a total of five entries by spreading the word.
(EDIT 1:)
DOH! Forgot to add. Competition opens from the 7th to the 31st of December – with a ‘surprise’ drawing on a different post between the 20th and 24th. The draw will be on the 4th of January. Spread the word (please?)
Why My Passion Could Make YOU Money
Dec 7th
It’s important to introduce this early on in the blog, simply because online, you can’t waste your time with blogs that don’t ‘deliver’. So in the interests of supporting your reading ease, I thought I’d explain why this is such a key subject, and why my passion can make money for YOU, as a writer of any kind.
As a blogger – the understanding of forensic linguistics can…
- Give you a strong language USP – use of language is KEY to getting people to believe in your message.
- Support you in creating a strong presence online.
- Help you when you can’t find the words that may otherwise WOW your potential readers
As a writer – the understanding of forensic linguistics can…
- Cut down on editing – you’ll be able to create works faster, because you’ll appreciate the use of language more.
- Create a specific corpus for your own works.
- Free up your time by supporting you in creating a solid language system that you can build on.
How I can help
Forensic linguistics is a relatively new criminological science – and falls loosely under psychology for many reasons. I am studying it after I graduate from the undergraduate degree as a Masters degree, but until then, this blog is going to share with you the core facts and structures that forensic linguistics is built on, which in turn, should give you a solid way to understand your own writing.
WOOOOHOOO! We Launched!
Dec 7th
Well, here it is. I can’t believe we’ve launched, finally.
In the next few days I’ll explain why this is so important to me – why it’s sparked my passion, and what I’m thinking about doing with the site – plus information about the books I’m planning and more. Basically though, I’m here to ‘serve’ as your forensic linguist.
What is forensic linguistics anyway?
Forensic linguistics is, at (one of ) it’s most basic forms, the criminological study of language. It’s the way the police and those in legal institutions use language, and how linguists can help them. (though, to be fair, it’s all broad strokes, and isn’t really as pithy as I’d like 
)
My interest in it is specifically in tracking the unique areas of language that each of us have, and supporting the tracking and prosecutions of specific types of crime, alongside the more ‘mundane’ art of using elements of forensic linguistics and it’s understanding in our writing, every day, and in every document and item we create.
What you’ll find on the blog
Discussion about writing, discussion about copywriting, information on forensic linguistics, book reviews and white papers from the field, and writing and information about how I get into the career specifically. Hopefully you’ll also find conversation and information that you need to support your writing. I look forward to chatting with you about it.