An Editor's Cup of Tea

Oh, possessive pronouns. How you seem to break the rules of grammar for your own benefit. It’s no wonder so many people get you wrong!  I admit that I have touched on this specific set of grammar rules in several other blog posts. However, this issue is so unbelievably common that it does, in fact, […]

Like it or not, we live in a digital age. And in that digital age, we have formed a breeding ground for grammar errors. Sometimes, these errors are simple, and readers can still find meaning within the error. However, at other times, an egregious error completely changes the meaning of a sentence. Fortunately, it is […]

While working to write business emails, many employees feel at a loss. Having never been taught the proper conventions, they flounder. I myself wrote some less-than-desirable emails in my time as an undergrad. Throughout my professional writing courses, however, I have picked up beneficial skills that have had an invaluable effect on the emails I […]

Words Changing Over Time         Words are ever-changing things. Their meanings rarely stay the same forever. Sometimes, this change is gradual and slow, but occasionally, words change meanings in the span of a few decades. In fact, some words have changed meaning over the short course of my lifetime. In this post, I […]

Throughout this semester, I have been reading Emily Favilla’s book “A World Without ‘Whom,’” and I have found her advice to be somewhat inconsistent with my beliefs.  In chapter 5 of this book, Favilla describes some of the Buzzfeed-specific rules that appear in their style guide. These rules are “the stuff that kind-sorta matters” (29). […]

I’m sure we’ve all had those moments where we write a word and then stare at the screen, scratching our heads and wondering, Should this word take an apostrophe? Well, maybe you haven’t, but I certainly have. In fact, it’s hard not to panic. Created via the imgflip meme generator The Basics: Apostrophe S         Possessive apostrophes […]