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DOWN WITH CRIMINAL SENTENCES!!
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"The Writer" Magazine Column
In 2009 and 2010, The Writer published 20 online columns and one print article of mine. These essays covered everything from semicolons to wordiness. The full text of all 21 are here on my blog!
Criminal Sentence Rap Sheet
- Blatant Self-Promotion (6)
- Books You Might Like (If You've Already Read Mine) (2)
- Capitalization (11)
- Dumb Mistakes (60)
- Encounters at Stores (2)
- Facebook account (1)
- Grammar (220)
- Grammar in the news (11)
- Grammar in Unexpected Places (2)
- Grammar-Related Articles (1)
- Guest post (2)
- Guest-written Episodes for Grammar Girl (73)
- National Grammar Day (2)
- poll picture (1)
- Poll Results (172)
- Punctuation (163)
- Questions from You (21)
- Questions to You (1)
- Rewriting Practice (1)
- Spelling (213)
- Style (65)
- Tips (2)
- Truly Criminal (2)
- weirdness (11)
- Word Choice (46)
- Wordiness (12)
- Writer Magazine (22)
- Your Own Criminal Sentence (1)
About Me
- The Sentence Sleuth
- I'm a copy editor and writer. I wrote The Curious Case of the Misplaced Modifier: How to Solve the Mysteries of Weak Writing, published in 2006 and now available in paperback. In 2007-2008, I wrote "The Sentence Sleuth" column for Writer's Digest magazine.
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- Criminal Sentence 439: A Band of Peeved Grammarians
- Poll Results 101
- Criminal Sentence 438: Where Have All the Commas G...
- Criminal Sentence 437: Bad Sight
- Criminal Sentence 436: Down with Bedbugs
- Criminal Sentence 435: Huh?
- Poll Results 100
- Friend Me on Facebook!
- Criminal Sentence 434: Interviews Given Where?
- Criminal Sentence 433: Afraid of Pain
- Criminal Sentence 432: I Un-Like This
- Criminal Sentence 431: Reaching My Limit
- Poll Results 99
- The Great Typo Hunt
- Criminal Sentence 430: A New Perspective
- Another Skool Problem!
- Criminal Sentence 429: Bak to Skool 2
- Criminal Sentence 428: Bak to Skool
- Poll Results 98
- New Grammar Girl Episode: The Word "Until": Is it ...
- Criminal Sentence 427: You and Your
- Criminal Sentence 426: Feeling Alone
- Criminal Sentence 425: No, I'm Not with You
- Criminal Sentence 424: It's Criminal
- Poll Results 97
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