The Closing Quotation Mark Dilemma

Three simple rules to keep your punctuation marks in their right…

Advisor or Adviser

A data-journey for one word that goes both ways

The Oxford Comma

A Harder Look

Commas separate items in a list of three or more. There is debate on whether a…

Data are Beautiful

Data’s story in grammar

The Strange Case of He Versus Him, and Other Pronoun (Mis)applications

Sometimes proper English…

I like your purple shirt

The impact of saying enough—and nothing more.

Enough Already with the Typos, Sports Illustrated

Why Editing is Important

Word Purge

How my workplace finally rid itself of tired, overused and plain inaccurate language—and…

The Double El(l) Dilemma

How one man’s spelling rules made me a true American

Get the message?

5 ways to make your writing clearer