One of the grandparents of writing guides is The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White (of […]
Tag: Proofreading
The Importance of Proofreading
Okay, yes, typos can be silly. We’ve all been there: in a rush, trying to dash off one more email […]
Common Punctuation Mistakes
A quick and handy list of common punctuation mistakes, and the correct versions: dashes and hyphens A hyphen is used […]
The Almighty Apostrophe
I think the apostrophe (the single right-hand quote, called “the inverted comma” across the pond) may hold the title for […]
Commonly Confused Words
A quick and handy list of terms which I often see confused, misused, or swapped: affect vs. effect to […]
Editing symbols
When you as a client hand over your precious text to an editor, the editor will read it over and […]