Of all forms of punctuation, perhaps none is more ignored, and perhaps maligned, than the semicolon.
Of all forms of punctuation, perhaps none is more ignored, and perhaps maligned, than the semicolon.
How hard is my blog writing to understand? Turns out, not very. I’m just barely smarter than a 5th grader.
For better or worse, our language and our use of it continues to evolve at an astounding rate. I find myself feeling inexplicably sanguine about the whole thing.
Is this another sign of the coming apocalypse? Hands, please. How many people knew that the New York Times was publishing a haiku blog on Tumblr, and that the snippets of Japanese-style poetry are generated by a robot? Yep, that’s what I thought. Me neither. But more terrifying is that it’s been doing this for more …
Good writing transcends nit-picking. Always has, always will. Hacks use grammar hammers as a way to scare the timid and insecure from writing, and it’s a shame.
I like to think that since I’m a writer, editor and communications consultant, that this hoarding just comes with the territory.
Being in the creative biz (writing and marketing and communications, that is), I have found that silence is deadly. To creativity — and a lot of other things.
Nobody’s perfect, right? Tell that to the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University. This past weekend, the hallowed home to some of the world’s best media minds — and my alma mater — handed out some diplomas with a typo in the school’s name! It was a big boo-boo. A huge …
One thing of value I find in blogs I follow are quick hits and/or recurring features. So, in a blog about communications, what better regular feature than sharing new words that I’ve come across — new to me, that is. Here are three: Hipsterical. Found this while perusing the comments in an interview with a …
