by Margot Carmichael Lester | Feb 28, 2023 | Writing/How to Write
Grammar is one of the most polarizing topics within writing communities, second only, perhaps, to the Oxford/serial comma issue that Pete Andersen and I famously debated here. There's a reason sticklers for grammatical perfection are often not-so-affectionately called...
by Margot Carmichael Lester | Mar 2, 2022 | Writing/How to Write
UPDATED FEBRUARY 2023 March 4 is National Grammar Appreciation Day. Grammar needs a day, I suppose. We take it for granted until somebody points out a grammatical error. And even then, do we actually appreciate it? Not really. That's in part because we don't really...
by Margot Carmichael Lester | Mar 4, 2020 | Blogs & Blogging, Content & Content Operations, Writing/How to Write
UPDATED MARCH 2023 Thanks to school, most of us have strong feelings about grammar. Fear. Loathing. Frustration. That's largely because we don't really do a great job of teaching grammar in school. It's frequently out of context. Or unexplained and therefore seemingly...
by Margot Carmichael Lester | Sep 24, 2009 | Process, Training & Workshops
Happy National Punctuation Day! Between our own writing and teaching others about writing, these little marks and techniques take up a lot of our time. We often cover very technical topics from cell apoptosis to financial derivatives. Sometimes we need to use long...
