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No. 340: “Gurf”

Good writing is all about having the right tools at your disposal. Knowing the rules of grammar, for instance, helps + more

Book-a-Minute

People keep telling me they’d read more if they had time. That lame excuse no longer holds water. Behold Book-a-Minute! + more

Guess I Picked the Wrong Week to Start Sniffing Glue

In the memoir portion of Stephen King’s On Writing, there’s a great line about…well, let’s just quote the man, shall + more

Writing is Hard!

In an article on how to become a faster writer, Michael Agger quotes Stony Brook professor Robert Boice: “Binge writing—hypomanic, + more

How Can You Tell Whether They’re Ripe?

Yes, it’s a real label. No, I don’t care to comment.

And the Winner Is…

Sue Fondrie, associate professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, is the winner of the 2011 + more

The Brits Surrender

If you’re not outraged, you haven’t seen this—in which we read that, in yet another step on the long march + more

Ever Wonder How Smart People Write?

You won’t find the answer at the last word. Instead, shoot on over to the Scientific American’s Guest Blog to + more

Grammar Lesson of the Week

There are a number of two-word phrases that, when combined into one word, cause a shift in grammatical function. For + more

A Necessary Corrective

“Hone in on.” Not only did I hear this phrase—twice—yesterday, I also saw it in print. (Granted, it was the + more

Want More Sales? Don’t Sound Like an Idiot

This is fascinating: a well-written product review (that is to say, with no spelling or grammar errors) tends to increase + more

You’d Need to Hire a Professional to Wash All Those Fenestrae

My brother-in-law alerted me to some pretty fine writing from the world of real estate: Gracefully proportioned and built during + more

“Flower, oh my Georgia!”

I think it was Erasmus who said that the desire to write grows with writing. It’s perhaps a bit presumptuous + more

NOT a Laughing Matter

It seems that any time someone laments the deterioration of our language, there’s a knee-jerk response from the perpetrators, smugly + more

50 Books You Can Just Go Ahead and Ignore

Even though it’s a bit, well…jarring to see Dostoevsky and Chaucer on the same list as Stephenie Meyer, it’s worth + more

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