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Foreign Language Anxiety in the Workplace

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This client is an example of one who needs a freelance writer with multiple skills. I translate, transcreate, edit, and write for them. This blog post focuses on an unknown aspect of mental health: foreign language anxiety in the workplace. Visit text&form‘s website the view the post.

How Far Do Electric Vehicles Drive?

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Since early 2019, I’ve been writing eight blog posts per month for the Used Car Dealers’ Association. The posts cover a range of topics: financial, environmental, family, and safety, to name a few. This one discusses the distance electric vehicles drive. Please visit the UCDA‘s website to view it.

Driving with Dogs

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Dog sitting in red convertable. Blog post written by Lori Straus.

In researching this blog post for the Used Car Dealers’ Association, I learned that only 5% of pet owners who drive with their dogs have a built-in pet safety system installed. This blog post aims to help people find safer ways to drive with their dogs.

How Much of Your Income Should You Spend on Your Vehicle?

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I enjoy writing blog posts that help people figure things out. In this one, I review the basics of deciding how much money you have available to purchase a car. As nice as it can be to buy a new, shiny one, sometimes the numbers don’t add up, and the last thing you need is to be stuck with a depreciating asset you can’t afford.

Are Heavy-Duty Trucks the Key to Solving Air Pollution?

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I wrote this blog post for Geotab, a telematics company that specializes in fleet management. Its impetus was a recent study that showed that heavy-duty truck emissions were far more dangerous than car emissions. I really enjoyed writing this one, because it forced me to examine my own opinions on this environmental issue and opened my mind to other data and therefore a different solution than...

OEM vs. Aftermarket Parts: Building Trust in Your Customer Part by Part

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Car parts hanging on a wall. For article on OEM vs. aftermarket parts.

(This magazine article appeared in The Ontario Dealer, in the November 2013 issue.) The used car industry is on the rise in Canada. IBIS World’s February 2013 report titled Used Car Dealers in Canada: Market Research Report stated that the used car business is a $7 billion industry in Canada. Yet car dealerships, both new and used, still have a bad media reputation. Aside from the stereotypical...

Buddy Guy and Steve Strongman: Another Part of Blues History in Kitchener

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Blues musician Steve Strongman

(This post appeared on a blog for a 2,000-seat live theatre, where blues legend Buddy Guy was playing, with Steve Strongman opening. Published March 2016.) It all started with a man named Smith. Glenn Smith, to be exact. You may know him as the owner of Ethel’s Lounge in Uptown Waterloo, but if you’ve been following the blues in Kitchener over the past few decades, you also know him...

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Lori Straus has written for FleetCarma.
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