AI loves the em dash, and we’re good with that – thanks to our rogue use of its cuter little brother.
AI loves the em dash, and we’re good with that – thanks to our rogue use of its cuter little brother.
Did you know that AI is writing obituaries now? It makes sense, given how ubiquitous artificial intelligence has become in our modern world.
I don’t know which offends more: the graffiti or the poor writing mechanics.
My husband is fluent in geek. He’s a software engineer, so he obviously learned it on the job. But I’m sharing his secrets, so you can learn to speak geek too.
Get ready to have your mind blown. I’m about to share five obscure punctuation marks that you’ve always needed in your life but never knew existed.
They say that every mistake is a learning opportunity in disguise. If that’s true, I once had a doozy of an opportunity. And it came with a hefty price tag.
With Halloween coming up, I’m going to reveal something spooky. I hear dead people.
On a flight home from grading hundreds of the 280,000 five-paragraph essays submitted for the Advanced Placement Test in English + more
The most recent edition of the Oxford English Dictionary—the 600,000-word “Victorian phenomenon” that is, in fact, my favorite lexical record—was + more
Those who spend any amount of time around me know that I don’t suffer pretentious writers gladly. Like people who + more
So what’s the story with backstory? Though I’ve never particularly liked the word—bit on the redundant side, isn’t it?—I’m fine + more
The inestimable Matt Labash has some advice for all you would-be writers out there. “Read more than you write,” he + more
There are two reasons to post a link to this story. First, €2.6 million is a cracking bargain. Second, if + more
“Good writers make you want to read,” writes Matt Labash, “but great writers make you want to write. To ride + more
I’ve been banging this drum for some time now—and it appears that the eggheads are finally on my side. From + more