Writing & Editing

Do you struggle to know where to begin your post? Take your cue from these exciting headlines that grabbed audience attention with flair.

If the sudden switch to ‘%’ instead of ‘percent’ has rocked you down to your giblets, this post is for you—even for those residing up yonder.

Communicators must deliver information unambiguously, and these basic rules are essential to fulfilling that responsibility. Here’s how to remedy common flaws in syntax and agreement.

In an excerpt from his new book, the copy chief at Random House skewers a few linguistic tenets that obstruct fluid composition. Fans of E. M. Forster and ‘Star Trek,’ rejoice.

Identify the author’s key points, eliminate needless text, and let verbs do the heavy lifting. As you revise and polish, do so with empathy.

Don’t use them unless absolutely necessary!

The resource advises communicators to use the term ‘racist’ or ‘racism’ when the situation calls for it, prompting many Twitter users to applaud the updated guidance.

Writers who commit the occasional verbal SNAFU are not unique in that regard. Here’s one author for whom the odd misstep and easy solutions are SOP.

In ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four,’ George Orwell used ‘doubleplusgood’ as a tepid modifier undermining expression. Today’s scribes need potent terms to convey magnificence. Try these descriptors.