Expert Tips for Fact-Checking Your Writing

In this month’s post, I’ll provide tips to help you prevent false information from creeping…

Top 10 New Changes in Chicago’s 18th Ed.

The Chicago Manual of Style, the primary stylebook used at ProofreadingPal, has just released a…

What It Means to Think Like a Human

Credulous tech dweebs, though, insist on imbuing LLMs with almost supernatural qualities that they manifestly…

Collaborative Editing in a Digital World

Let's talk about using computers for co-editing and co-working tools to enhance productivity.

Make Your Writing Soar with Data Analysis

Having already erroneously sold GPT as a substitute for doing research, developing a thesis, picking…

AI: Beyond the Jubilant Buildup

Nine months into this AI revolution, the rhetoric has cooled off. Certainly, people continue to…

6 Things Human Editors Do That AI Can’t

With all these options for writing help, you might be wondering which is better: AI…

Changes in the MLA Handbook 9th Ed.

The good news for writers who rely on MLA style is that the nitty gritty…

Curse of the Proofreader’s Brain

The curse of professional language persons, you see, is that they are always language persons,…

How Macros Improve Writing

Macros are little programs you can add to Word to make it do pretty much…

When and How to Use a Proofreading Service

A professional edit is not a shortcut to quality writing; that comes only from rewriting,…

More Tips for Word’s Spell and Grammar Check

Spell check is a great tool to let writers know when they’ve made spelling errors,…

Knowing Your Helpful Pronunciation Diacritical Marks

A frequent complaint of language learners of English is that the pronunciation of a word…

Adding Diacritics with MS Word’s Insert Tab

Let’s say you’re writing a paper about the history of the United Nations during the…

How to Make a Table of Contents in MS Word: Basics

MS Word’s Table of Contents (ToC) feature works quite well and is more than worth…

Microsoft Word: Inserting Symbols

Ever wonder how documents manage to have text that isn’t on your keyboard? Ever wonder…

3 Warnings for Using a Thesaurus

In my teaching and editing experience, there are three basic thesaurus user types: EFLs, native…

The Writer’s Bookshelf

However and wherever you find them, the right books can help improve your writing and…

Top 10 Changes in APA’s 7th Edition

Here are the top ten changes to the APA manual, selected because these are the…

Style Guides and House Rules

Periodicals often have their own in-house style guides laying out exceptions. Such house rules can…