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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.
4 comments:
No apologies necessary. I think we all understand life getting busy. It will be good to see you posting again, however.
Had it not been for your second sentence, your first would have been wrong, logically. Both you and I know the year 2012, "this year", has just begun, and I'm sure you'll have so many important blog posts in the next eleven months! To say you've not posted much (or should it be 'many'?) is, therefore, wrong. Anyway, I offer you my belated New Year greetings, and I look forward to learning a lot this year, too.
Seems to me that "this year" is pretty clearly 2012. I suppose I could have specified 2012. Thanks for being picky, Naku!
I learned to be picky (when I can) from grammarians like no other than yourself! I doubt if I'm grammatically right here.
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