Category: Editing Expertise


  • Quoting Song Lyrics (A Minefield)

    Dear Authors. Stop. Quoting. Song lyrics. You probably don’t have permission. You definitely can’t afford it. Here’s what to do instead.

  • What is “an error”?

    “It depends!” I need a button I can press to say this, it is so often my answer to editing and proofreading students. Aside from a handful of inalienable grammar rules, everything else depends.  What does it depend on? Why, the style being followed, naturally. And that style is up to the author and the…