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How do I get my writers to proofread their copy?
By Henry Ruddle on Dec 8, 2006 | In Writing/Editing, FAQs, Writing/Editing FAQ, Grammar, Newsletters-Internal, Newsletters-Marketing
-- Michelle McGowan, TSM Services
Michelle -- Sorry, playing the grammar cop is your job. However, the remainder of your question (not printed here) makes it sound as if you are in the unfortunate position of being a compiler instead of an editor. Ha… more »
I support a government agency in which acronyms are more often used than the phrases they represent. Do you have any guidance on how to balance their use in our publications?
By Henry Ruddle on Apr 12, 2006 | In Writing/Editing, FAQs, Writing/Editing FAQ, Style, Grammar, Newsletters-Internal
--Kay Grinter, InDyne, Inc.
Kay -- Ah, the old "everybody knows what that means" conundrum. It's amazingly common, even outside acronymland. There is no scientific answer because the boundary between terms that "everybody knows" and those that need ex… more »
Hyphenalia
By Henry Ruddle on Oct 11, 2005 | In Writing/Editing, Grammar, Newsletters-Internal, Newsletters-Marketing
A recent reader comment (now, is that a recent reader or a recent comment?) about an earlier hyphen article prompted prying into a punctuation polemic. Is non-hyphenated hyphenated? If you are an anti-hyphen grammarian, would you leave out the hyphen?… more »
Hyphens
By Henry Ruddle on Oct 11, 2005 | In Writing/Editing, Style, Grammar, Format, Newsletters-Internal, Newsletters-Marketing
Small, Tricky and Guaranteed to Break Every-
Body Up (at least when "everybody" is at the end of a line)
There are two kinds of hyphens -- the "link hyphen" used for compound words such as "co-opt," and the "break h… more »
It's Not Them (or They)
By Henry Ruddle on May 11, 2005 | In Writing/Editing, Grammar, Newsletters-Internal, Newsletters-Marketing
The pronoun used for companies and collective nouns is "it" not "they." The Internet seems to have made this error more prevalent (as in "I like Adobe; they have a nice Web site." used instead of the grammatically correct, "… more »
