When a Question isn’t Really a Question
Not every question requires a question mark. Trust me.
Word of the Week – homing in
When he was young, our oldest son sang out “homey, homey,” whenever we pulled into the driveway from an out-of-town trip. I use that rather homely introduction to home in on the Word of the Week.
Don’t Let Scare Quotes Scare You
I recently edited a paper that included an inordinate number of scare quotes. The writer may have thought he was doing readers a favor by placing quotation marks around a word he was introducing or using in an unusual or nontraditional way. But really, it was just plain scary the number of times they were used.
Word of the Week – scintilla
When is the last time someone called you a scintillating conversationalist?
603 Reasons I’m an Editor
That’s the number of footnotes in the academic paper I finished editing over the weekend.