by Liz Coursen | Sep 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
Question: If someone advertised that he (or she!) is a WordPress “expert” and a “business adviser,” but misspelled the word “adviser,” would you have any confidence whatsoever that his (or her!) advice would be worth, well,...
by Liz Coursen | Aug 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
I know a lot of people—and a lot of people I respect, a lot—think that LinkedIn is the greatest thing since sliced bread. While I’ve never been enamored of the whole “connectedness” thing and the thought of having a million billion...
by Liz Coursen | Aug 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
Geeky-editing-post-about-commas alert! I just came across these two sentences on the B&N website, ironically on one of its “here’s-how-you-put-your-books-in-our-stores pages.” The annual, “The Writer’s Market”, is also stocked...
by Liz Coursen | Jul 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
What a terrific example of the suspended hyphen rule, compliments of The New York Times: The older Tom Cruise gets, the more fun it is to watch him risk death in elaborate age- and gravity-defying ways.
by Liz Coursen | Jul 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Yours in good grammar: The Space Makes the Case! A “breakthrough” is defined as “a significant or sudden advance, development, or achievement that removes a barrier to progress; a person’s first success.” “Breakthrough” is one of a group of words, like cleanup, login,...
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