You can do better than this bland, dull modifier Of all the useless modifiers, “great” is one of the most useless. It just lies there, squatting on a perfectly good noun, cl...
You know that active, dramatic words are always your best choice for getting your reader's attention, but in the rush of a deadline, it's easy to fall back into ordinary expression...
I come from a family who are pretty good with their hands but somehow the fix-it gene skipped me. Knowing my limitations, it was years before I bought an electric drill; if I neede...
Punctuation. Oh boy. To non-writers, it’s a wonky bore. They’re half-right: It is wonky. But to some of us in the editing game, the very wonkiness of punctuation is what mak...