Writing & Editing

Mark your calendar for National Punctuation Day, National Talk Like Shakespeare Day and other fun communications-related observances.

Your interview subjects can’t read your mind, and often the mere wording of your solicitation for compelling anecdotes will perplex them. Here’s how to tap the mother lode.

A series of tips is great, but if you commit these errors, you’re more likely to confuse your readers than enlighten them.

Maybe your job category has morphed into ‘content creator,’ or perhaps you do more editing and proofing than crafting original copy. A changing landscape requires ever more skills.

The punctuation mark can be tricky even for veteran writers. Follow these rules to use the oft-abused characters correctly.

The green-eyed monster gets hold of practically every creative soul from time to time. Here’s how to keep your eye on what really matters: your own work.

Have you ever called a group of octopuses ‘octopi’? If so, this article is for you.

Interested readers, writers and academics can find research publications on even the most obscure topics. Do you recognize any on this list?

Has stream-of-consciousness discourse brought this violation into widespread use, or do the violators simply not understand how sentence structure works?

Headlines aren’t a blog post’s finishing touch, but rather the determining factor in whether people will engage with your content. Don’t botch your greatest opportunity to get clicks.

These phrases can cause your readers to be confused, not enlightened.

From Grammar Girl’s weekly batch of helpful tips to guidelines on self-publishing, the array of options will prove helpful to scribes of all types.

The bracketed Latin term tells readers that a particular error appeared in the source material and was not an oversight by the later text’s editor or transcriber. Here’s how to use it properly.

These elementary errors frequently appear in published writings and business emails, much to the detriment of their authors.