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  • The Write Blog’s Grammar-Fail Contest: Win a $50 Amazon Gift Certificate

    Are you a grammar Nazi?  A stickler for punctuation?  Do you want a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate? The Write Blog is happy to announce our first-ever bad grammar photo contest. We’re inviting all of our fellow readers, writers, word lovers, and grammar geeks to get out there and find the best examples of public proofreading [...]

  • All Other’s Will be Towed

    I snapped this picture on my way to an appointment last week: Yikes. Think proofreading is just for printed documents like books, magazines, and reports? Think again: If it has text on it, and other people are going to see it, you should probably proofread it.  Nine times out of ten, you’ll catch the most [...]

  • “Poring” vs. “Pouring”: What’s the Difference?

    This question came up during a round of in-house editing this week, so – of course –I wanted to share: Complete this sentence:  I spent hours  _______ over the pages of the magazine. A.)   poring B.)   pouring The correct answer is A, “poring.” “Pore” means to study or read something with great care.  You’d pore [...]

  • Making Confirmation Emails Fun – No, Really!

    I had to share this. So, I bought some shoes from Zappos.com last month, and the day after I placed my order, this fun little confirmation email landed in my inbox: “Yay” is right. Zappos took something that could have been bone-dry and made it fun and funky. Especially when compared to this sturdy, functional-not-fashionable [...]

  • AP: Goodbye “Web site;” Hello “Website”

    Good news for all word nerds: The Associated Press has finally made the switch from the old-fashioned “Web site” to the simpler, more natural-looking “website.” Yay! To me, “Web site” has always seemed a little stuffy and English teacher-ish. Good for AP to know when it’s time to change things up. According to the AP’s [...]

  • AP Style FAQs: Part 2

    Last week, we kicked off a mini-series of AP Stylebook-themed blog posts. This week, we’re sharing a few more gems of wisdom from The AP Stylebook Online.
    Q: What’s the rule for capitalizing a person’s title?
    A: It’s complicated, but here are the basics: AP defines a formal title as “one [...]

  • AP Style FAQs: Part 1

    Does “city-wide” need a hyphen? If you’re writing about a sculpture, should you italicize the title, or put it in quotation marks?
    The truth is, there’s no right answer. In most cases, style choices like this can vary from client to client. But what do you do when your client has [...]

  • Positive vs. Negative Marketing . . . and Gamefly’s “Bad Game” TV Spot

    So, Gamefly.com has been running this ad lately. Check it out:

    People buy bad video games. They freak out, realizing that they’ve purchased bad video games. They continue to freak out, ostensibly because they’re stuck with their bad video games (and out the 50 to 60 bucks they paid for them).
    The [...]

  • Eight Proofreading Mistakes that Count!

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    How’s this for a proofreading horror story: Because of a teeny little typo, people calling for a free cab service on New Year’s Eve ended up connecting with an “adult” chat line instead. Oops. That’s the kind of mistake that most likely ends in a lost client and a very, [...]

  • Putting the Kibosh on Chillaxing, Czars, and More

    I don’t know about you, but I gag just a little when someone talks about a ‘teachable moment’ – and, evidently, so do the folks at Lake Superior State University. Teachable moment is just one of the entries on LSSU’s 2010 list of words that should be banned from our vocabulary due to “mis-use, [...]

  • Books for Writers: Six Books to Inspire and Inform

    Need a creative boost? A good laugh? A few style pointers?
    Maybe you’re into science fiction or mysteries. Perhaps you prefer nonfiction or graphic novels or biographies. Or fantasy novels. But whatever you’re into, if you’re a writer, you probably love books about writing. This week, I thought I’d [...]

  • And I Still Remember Worrying About Paper Quality . . .

    Forget hard-copy resumes and cover letters. Forget job search sites. Check out how a guy named Hal Thomas landed a sweet new marketing job via Twitter. Just one more reason – if you needed one — to get on the social media bandwagon.

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  • Compose vs. Comprise?

    Here’s just one more example of two words that are often used interchangeably – and incorrectly. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen something like:
    Our IT department is comprised of five full-time experts
    The book is comprised of three sections

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    It’s a widespread assumption that “compose” and “comprise” basically mean the same [...]


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