I’m normally not a fan of burning books, but I think I’d make an exception for The Associated Press Stylebook + more
I’m normally not a fan of burning books, but I think I’d make an exception for The Associated Press Stylebook + more
As a followup to last week’s post about beginning sentences with “and,” let me just add one last point for + more
Many, many, many times I’ve been told to not begin sentences with “and.” Or any other conjunction, for that matter. + more
From Thomas Merton comes this, the sort of statement that would make for a fine mantra—if I believed in the + more
The Boston Globe‘s Erin McKean seems to think that the practice of “verbing”—perhaps the worst thing to happen to the + more
So the missus and I were enjoying a picnic in Cannon Hill Park last night when, as I was about + more
Following up on yesterday’s post (scroll down), here’s an application that uses a super-secret algorithm to determine, from a writing + more
Speaking of bad writing, it seems the winners of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest have been announced. Named for Edward + more
To those who read the last word and say, “Hey, I can do that”—and then wonder what’s to stop them + more
A few years ago, the journal Philosophy and Literature sponsored the Bad Writing Contest, its aim to celebrate “the most + more
Last weekend—and, it turns out, for the first time in my life—I read a Sports Illustrated article from beginning to + more
So I was reading a news release from a reputable NYSE-listed corporation the other day, and I came across the + more
Jessica Love (seriously, that’s her name), a PhD candidate in cognitive psychology at Ohio State University, talks about how she’s + more
Joseph Epstein writes about one of my favorite pastimes: finding typos in published work. Apart from the smug self-satisfaction that + more