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Copy Editor’s Corner | Blogpostapostrophe

September 2, 2015 Alison Dotson

As copy editors, we work with words day in and day out, and we sometimes forget how confusing proofreading marks, punctuation, and style rules can be. Lately, a rash of people have been puzzled by a common mark, the apostrophe. Which direction does an apostrophe point? What...

Your writing deserves a second opinion

August 11, 2015 Spencer Caton

Ever stare at your writing for so long that you start to forget what some of the words mean? Yeah, us too. At that point, it should be pretty clear that you could use a second set of eyes. But that's far from the only...

A pinch of this, a dash of that

June 30, 2015 Alison Dotson

Dashes -- beloved by copy editors, often loathed by, well, everyone else. Hyphens (-) join words (good-looking, long-term). An em dash (—) is often used to add emphasis or set off thoughts mid-sentence, and can be an effective alternative to parentheses....

Copy Editor’s Corner | Collectively or individually, that is the question

February 3, 2015 Alison Dotson

Is one of the following absolutely, without a doubt, grammatically correct? “The board disagree about how to allocate this quarter’s remaining funds.” Or “The board disagrees about how to allocate this quarter’s remaining funds.”...

Copy Editor’s Corner | The dangers of dangling participles

November 25, 2014 Alison Dotson

When’s the last time someone scrawled “dangling participle” next to something you’ve written? It was likely in a high school or college English course....

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Copy Editor’s Corner | Blogpostapostrophe

Your writing deserves a second opinion

A pinch of this, a dash of that

Copy Editor’s Corner | Collectively or individually, that is the question

Copy Editor’s Corner | The dangers of dangling participles