One of the things I like about English is that, although any given context has right and wrong, what is considered right and wrong changes across situations and over time. I’ve compared it to wearing a bathing suit to the beach but not to address the U.N. …or UN. Responsible Read more…
This year, I decided to earn some of my BELS maintenance points by brute force: An epic reread of the AMA Manual of Style. For my hiking readers, this is like doing an AT Northbound but with copyright law and specialized punctuation rules instead of Springer, Washington, and Katahdin. Like Read more…
Academic writing in the hard sciences values clarity over poetry, even in contexts in which most other forms of English writing do not. This means that not all common writing advice applies. A middle school teacher once told a young me not to use the same verb in three sentences Read more…