A little digging can reveal the hostile origins of many common terms and phrases.
Lessons learned from a career spent editing news, scientific and governmental writing.
Cleft sentences are one of the most common constructions that you’ve probably never heard of.
It is time for style guides to allow writers more flexibility in the treatment of abbreviations.
It’s a good idea to make sure you understand two very negative words that can easily be confused: insidious and invidious.
Deliberate attention to how you use your reference materials will lead to a better editing experience.
A look at how one small town made the name change from Board of Aldermen to Town Council.
Because inveigh and inveigle are so similar, it’s easy to mistake one for the other.
Avoiding bias isn’t incidental to an editor’s job but central.