This week seems something of a deviation from the topical track, as beaten by the eight preceding blogs, all of which offer general...

In earlier essays, I have reflected on related topics such as logic, clarity, and style. In tautology, we have another subject to throw...

“It’s not wrong but it’s bad style” – is the kind of phrase you’ve probably heard before. [1] It might be that some of you, if your early...

For us native speakers, subject-verb agreement largely takes care of itself; our instinctive grammatical understanding guides us to the...

To write coherently, we most obviously rely on grammar, whose governance strings of words require to be called sentences. Grammar guides...

As they begin to write, primary school children are taught phonics. Phonics is the relating of the spoken to the written word: sounds are...

Central to Short Proofing’s remit is promoting clear and concise written English but how do you achieve this? Like anything, improving...

Riding the elevator up to his third-story apartment, Zach was cooked. He was considering just crashing out on the couch, ordering takeout...

Effect or affect? We’re sometimes unsure of the difference one letter makes. Indeed, even after a hastily performed Google search, the...