A friend is currently going through this miserable process, so I thought I’d help out … 😉
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William Safire’s Rules for Writers
Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative[…]
Read moreFamous Razors
Razors aren’t just for shaving. In philosophy, a razor is a rule of thumb that allows for the elimination (the[…]
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Context is everything! Cats and dogs in the Bible
I spotted this quote in a magazine this week … “The dog is mentioned in the Bible 18 times —[…]
Read moreCheck your popularity with n-grams
Y’all know about n-grams, right? Wikipedia nails ’em: … an n-gram is a contiguous sequence of n items from a given[…]
Read moreLiterary Putdowns
In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important,[…]
Read moreStephen Fry vs. Grammar nazis
Can’t seem to get any writing done today . . .
Interesting origins
The derivation of well-known words and phrases. Many familiar English words and phrases have interesting derivations, and because Britain was[…]
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