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How to Use Character Maps and Unicode

The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit based in Mountain View, California, was founded in 1991 to…

5 Student Writing Problems Found Everywhere

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When and When Not to Use Em Dashes

The en dash is used mostly for number ranges (e.g., 1928–1972) and in some stylebooks…

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…

Tips for Effective Digital Assignments

With any digital assignment, follow steps similar to those you would follow for a traditional…

Novels and Visual Effects in Film

Most new writers I’ve worked with share the crucial misconception that the way to write…

Foreign Loan Words, Diacritics, and AutoCorrect

A given word may or may not then “read” to the English-trained eye as foreign,…

Digital Assignments

This fall, many schools will be returning to in-person learning, but no matter what your…

Tips to Avoid Mixed Metaphors

Whether your first language is English or not, you must have mixed your metaphors a…

Foreign Loan Words and Diacritical Marks

Foreign loan words are brought into English more or less intact, either in their original…

Tips to Insert Objects into Word Documents (and Keep Your Sanity)

In Word, there are lots of little options and properties that dictate—and may unpredictably change—the…

Why Adverbs Can Be Bad

Plotting Fiction: Outline or Improvise?

Getting from an initial idea to a completed story seems like a mysterious process for…

Problems with Jargon and More When Writing for General Audiences

Writing on a specialized topic for nonspecialists can be a challenge for writers of all…

Adopting New Words vs. Slang

I know, as an editor, I’m not supposed to say this, but when it comes…

Plotting Fiction: Putting the MICE Ratio to Work

The first step to solving any problem is diagnosing it. That begins with figuring out…

Common Errors When Using Names

For readability and clarity and out of respect for those referred to, it is important…

Guide to Transitions: Sentences

Last time, we talked about transitioning from topic to topic, which means from paragraph to…

Plotting Fiction: The MICE Ratio

When a single thematic element predominates in a story, it suggests a particular narrative structure.…

Tips to Follow Directions in Writing Assignments

In today’s post, I’ll share my thoughts on another relatable lesson. Good writers follow directions!…

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