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Four Ways to Effectivly Improve Your Writing: Conscientiously Correct and Avoid Common Writing Mistakes

By: Sarah Smith

More Easy Ways to Avoid Grammar Errors: Common Grammar Mistakes & Simple Hints: There vs. Their vs. They're

By: Cynthia Jones-Shoeman

Understanding and Removing Passive Writing: Passive Writing is a Common Fault

By: Debbie Roome

Easy Ways to Avoid Grammar Errors: Common Grammar Mistakes & Simple Hints to Remember English Rules

By: Cynthia Jones-Shoeman

Easy Way to Remember English Rules, Avoid Errors: Common Grammar Mistakes & Simple Cheats to Help Writing Improve

By: Cynthia Jones-Shoeman

A Guide to the Parts of Speech: Learn the Difference Between an Adjective and an Adverb

By: Cynthia Jones-Shoeman

How to Avoid Making Comma Errors: Use the Acronym LUCI to Remember Where to Place Commas

By: Laura Steer

Definition and List of Prepositions: Time, Place, Direction, Archaic, & Rarely Used Prepositions

By: Feature Writer Megan B. Wyatt

Commonly Misused Verbs: Usage of Sit, Sat, Lie, and Lay

By: Carol Rzadkiewicz

The Rules of Capitalization: When and When Not to Capitalize Words

By: Carol Rzadkiewicz

Can I End a Sentence with a Preposition? The Rules and Exceptions of Preposition Usage

By: Feature Writer Megan B. Wyatt

When to Use Among or Amongst: The Difference Between Among and Amongst

By: Scott Ferguson

Avoiding Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers: Writing With Clarity and Style

By: Carol Rzadkiewicz

When to Use a Comma: The Rules of Comma Usage

By: Carol Rzadkiewicz

Punctuating and Capitalizing Titles in AP Style: How to Write Book, Movie, Poem, Song, Radio, & Television Titles

By: Feature Writer Megan B. Wyatt

Is the Semicolon Necessary? Punctuation in the Digital Age

By: Janet Byron Anderson

Types of Tom Swifties: Puns With Adverbs Celebrate Hundredth Anniversary in 2010

By: Feature Writer Thomas Alan Gray

Military Titles and Abbreviations in AP Style: Guide to Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Marine Corps and Air Force Titles

By: Feature Writer Megan B. Wyatt

AP Style Cheat Sheet: Basic Rules of Associated Press Style to Keep Beside Your Computer

By: Feature Writer Megan B. Wyatt

Punctuation in AP Style: Commas, Periods, Quotes, Colons & Hyphens in Associated Press Style

By: Feature Writer Megan B. Wyatt

The AP Style Guide to Numbers: When to Round and Spell Out Numbers and Exceptions to the Rules

By: Feature Writer Megan B. Wyatt

The Difference Between Bring and Take: Commonly Misused Words

By: Carol Rzadkiewicz

When and What to Capitalize in AP Style: A Reference to Capitalization Usage in Associated Press Style

By: Feature Writer Megan B. Wyatt

The AP Style Guide to Abbreviations: A Reference to Abbreviation and Acronym Rules of Associated Press

By: Feature Writer Megan B. Wyatt

How to Write in AP Style: A Quick Reference to the Basics of Associated Press Writing Style

By: Feature Writer Megan B. Wyatt

Sentence Structure Errors: Common Syntax Mistakes -- Quotes, Apostrophes, & Parallelism

By: Feature Writer Megan B. Wyatt

Tips for Editing Papers: Ways to Improve Your Grade in Writing

By: Mary Peach

Editing Writing Like a Pro: Copy Free of Grammar and Spelling Errors Will Impress Editors

By: Janie Sullivan

Adverbs are Really Unnecessary: A Look Into the Problem of Adverb Overusage

By: Kenneth Burchfiel

When and How to Use a Colon in Writing: Usage Descriptions and Examples of This Punctuation Mark

By: Feature Writer Megan B. Wyatt

How to Correct Run-On Sentences & Comma-Splices: Ways to Identify & Punctuate Using Semicolons, Conjunctions, Periods

By: Feature Writer Megan B. Wyatt

How to Help Children Learn the Parts of Speech: Teaching Elementary-Aged Kids to Identify Basic Sentence Structure

By: Feature Writer Megan B. Wyatt

Grammar Tips: Common Grammatical Errors In Speech and Writing Explained

By: Walter Edwards

What are Homonyms? Understanding English Grammar: Commonly Misused Homonyms

By: Marion Grace Woolley

When to Use an Apostrophe: Understanding English Grammar: Apostrophes

By: Marion Grace Woolley

Common Misuse of the Apostrophe: Some Still Have Difficulty Properly Integrating into Their Writing

By: Justin Harrington

Reference Books for Copyeditors: What Every New Copyeditor Needs to Have on Their Desk

By: Feature Writer Lisa Rufle

Conjunction Classes: Coordinating and Subordinating

By: Karen Reiser

Before or After Quotation Marks: Where to Put Other Punctuation Ending a Quote

By: Karen Reiser

Fighting Wordiness: 5 Quick Editing Tips

By: Geoffrey Hineman

That or Who? Knowing When Who Is More Appropriate than That

By: Karen Reiser

That or Which? Don't Misuse These Relative Pronouns

By: Karen Reiser

Progressive Versus Simple Tense: The Simplest Way to Say Something is Often The Best Way

By: Karen Reiser

Numerals or Words: Knowing When To Use Numerals and When to Spell Them Out

By: Karen Reiser

To Hyphenate or Not to Hyphenate: Knowing When to Hyphenate Compound Words

By: Karen Reiser

What is a Comma Splice? How To Recognize and Correct This Common Error

By: Karen Reiser

What is a Copyeditor? Do you have what it takes to launch a copyediting career?

By: Karen Reiser

One Word or Two? Sometimes they have different meanings, sometimes they’re not words.

By: Kimberly Dawn Wells

Use Quotes in your Book: How to Get Permission to Quote Someone in Your Book

By: Kimberly Dawn Wells

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