Variety In Your Writing
November 5, 2007
The simple declarative sentence is the bedrock of good writing. “See Spot run,” says it all. However, if your writing is restricted to such sentences, the monotony will kill off your readers faster than a fresh outbreak of the bubonic plague. Variety in your expression will breathe fresh life into them.
Here are some tips to […]
Bye-Bye Hyphens
October 10, 2007
The English language is in a constant state of change. The grammar you learned in high school or college becomes increasing obsolete each day. The main reasons for the accelerated rate of change? The Internet and text messaging.
Nothing demonstrates the change more than the fact that the publishers of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary has […]
Is Wikipedia a Reliable Research Tool?
October 3, 2007
Wikipedia often comes up near the top when you do a Google topic search. It is used by millions of people as a research tool, but is it a reliable source of information? Increasingly, Wikipedia is coming under scrutiny for providing biased and inaccurate information. There are three main issues:
1. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, conceived […]
Capital “B” in Bible, Please!
September 14, 2007
Text messaging and other influences have contributed to some of the worst writing habits imaginable, including the failure of people to use capitalization and punctuation. Sadly, that style is intruding into everyday communication, and it’s appalling. If I get an e-mail that is a lowercase wall of type with no periods or paragraph breaks, I […]
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