Apr
10
10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid
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Jody Gilbert Tech Republic
These days, we tend to communicate via the keyboard as much as we do verbally. Often, we’re in a hurry, quickly dashing off emails with typos, grammatical shortcuts (I’m being kind here), and that breezy, e.e. cummings, no-caps look. It’s expected. It’s no big deal. But other times, we try to […]
Apr
10
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Matt Loney ZDNet UK
When we ran an article titled 10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid, we were hoping to lend a little help to IT types who are often (wrongly in our view) stereotyped as being poor communicators. The fact that it was deluged with Talkbacks pointing out your own pet […]
Apr
10
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Michael Leddy teaches college English and blogs at Orange Crate Art.
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Student-writers often believe that the secret of good writing is a reliance upon bigger and “better” words. Thus the haphazard thesaurus use that I wrote about last month. Another danger for student-writers involves the assumption that good writing is a matter of […]
Apr
10
How to punctuate a sentence
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Michael Leddy teaches college English and blogs at Orange Crate Art.
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Last month I showed how to unstuff a sentence by removing unnecessary words. This month I’ll offer a quick-and-dirty guide to punctuating a sentence. Nothing that follows is meant to substitute for the nuanced explanations of what’s usually called a writing handbook, […]