RICHMOND, Va. - In an era when students’ social media skills often surpass their writing skills, many American high school students are just not prepared for the rigorous college curriculums that ...
Bruce Leonard has been an editor, managing editor, city editor, associate editor, copy editor, contributing editor or reporter/photographer for dozens of publications. Smartphones, tablets, computers ...
Many of you are kind enough to share with me multiple forwarded collections of embarrassing headlines from other newspapers, unfortunate misspellings or captions, punctuation puns and dirty limericks.
Punctuation matters! It’s National Punctuation Day and we are taking the opportunity to look at the role punctuation plays in language. The pandemic has changed everything, including our language.
As indicated in the introduction to Division of Marketing and Communications’ Grammar and Style Guide: Correct grammar, punctuation, and “style” may seem old-fashioned these days, but their absence in ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. English departments will be chiefly responsible for teaching grammar, sentence structure and punctuation, under a draft new syllabus, ...
Incorrect spelling and punctuation can be the making or breaking of a message. While everyone was taught about the importance of correct grammar at school, many didn't bother to pay attention and are ...
As lawyers, our existence is governed by rules: court rules, procedural rules, evidentiary rules and Bluebook rules, just to name a few. We are not, however, immune to the effects of media influences, ...