Style Alert: Internet And Web to be Set in Lowercase
May 15, 2016
In its tradition of announcing major alterations to the AP Stylebook in the annual meetings of the American Copy Editors Society (ACES), the Associated Press (AP) made yet another radical change: starting on June 1, writers who adhere to AP Style should no longer capitalize internet and we...
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Of Words and Endless Possibilities
May 10, 2016
I have always been in love with words.
There is something so liberating in putting thoughts into paper, of seeing whole worlds spring forth from the point of a pen or across the screen of a computer.
You might seem trapped within the four corners of a page, and yet you are free, for the words ...
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Conjunctions: The Glue of the English Language
May 05, 2016
Conjunctions, as defined by Merriam-Webster (2016), are words that “join together sentences, clauses, phrases, or words.” It seems pretty simple enough, but to make it even more so, let’s use metaphors—metaphors are important, after all.
So when you want to...
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