Lately I've been thinking about courteous business writing. That topic always reminds me of a message I got from my friend and longtime colleague Cindy Clay, for whom I used to do a lot of writing.
I had emailed a book review to Cindy, and she really didn't like...
Never accept a grammar- and spell-check as foolproof.
Last week I was once again reminded of the limits of proofreading software. In a business writing class, participants were sharing the documents they had just written, when we discovered these grammar- and spell-check misses:
"between you and I" (change...
While others comment about U.S. independence from British rule on this American holiday, I'm thinking about another rule: the rule of numbers in dates.
These numbers are rendered correctly: July 4 is a U.S. holiday. The Fourth of July is a U.S. holiday. The 4th of...
When I started yesterday’s post, I dithered around for a while, typing in a few pompous sentences about the importance of ground rules. After a couple of minutes, I found my subject and got comfortably into it. Once there, I cut those first dull comments.
Some people aptly call...