writing – Clean Composition by Rachel Elrom

Boomers vs. Zoomers, or How I Honed My WTF Face Upon Learning that Punctuation No Longer Matters

Q&A with a Millennial: How to punctuate so Zoomers will respect you So read the title of an article that figuratively slapped me across the face as I scrolled through my Google alerts for grammar and punctuation. (Yes, I’m that nerdy.) “I don’t feel a burning desire to be respected by Gen Z,” I thoughtContinueContinue reading “Boomers vs. Zoomers, or How I Honed My WTF Face Upon Learning that Punctuation No Longer Matters”

You can have the Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Pact, my employer, uses AP Style, which favors brevity over anything else. Actually, the entire field of international development is moving toward using AP, an initiative led by USAID. Putting aside my other feelings about AP style in our field (e.g., how are we supposed to cite our sources?!), there is one entry in the APContinueContinue reading “You can have the Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.”

Proper Punctuation Matters

"Let's eat Grandma!" or "Let's eat -- comma -- Grandma!" Punctuation saves lives.

I’ve seen quite a few memes over the last year or so that highlight the importance of properly placed punctuation (say that three times fast 😉 ). Here are a couple of my favorites… (from the blog Bilinguish) (from Adult ESL Jobs) P.S., Grammerly is one of my favorite go-to sites for all things grammar.ContinueContinue reading “Proper Punctuation Matters”