Reading time: Less than 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world to find websites, books and articles to help other writers. Today I discuss a BBC blog post describing how commas save lives… I have a copy editor who saves […]
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world to find websites, books and articles to help other writers. Today I discuss an article about the exclamation point written by Lauren Katz… I confess: I sometimes overuse exclamation
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world to find websites, books and articles to help other writers. Today I discuss an article written by Mary Norris. I love reading about genesis of people’s careers — most
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Word count: 239 words Reading time: Less than 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world to find websites, books and articles to help writers. Today I discuss a post on punctuation that appeared in the Mental Floss blog. I hadn’t
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Word count: 287 words Reading time: Just over 1 minute In searching for my sentence-of-the week, I consider a variety of attributes. Today’s example might strike you as banal or dull but I like it because it perfectly illustrates perfectly how that difficult piece of punctuation, the semi-colon, should be
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