Dear People of the World, please keep your ding dang punctuation inside of quotation marks. Example: Bob said, “Poor punctuation usage is not right”. “In fact”, he continued, “is there anything more annoying that punctuation marks outside of quotation marks”? No, there’s not. Periods, commas, exclamations points: all of them should stay inside quotation marks. Be aware that there are a few exceptions to that … Continue reading Grammar Rant

Writing can be intimidating. There’s grammar and punctuation, coherent thoughts, intros, bodies, and conclusions, not to mention proper spelling and the absence of prepositions at the end of sentences. But writing doesn’t have to be difficult. Here is the key: to write well, you must read. And you must read often. And you must read a great deal. If words are to be familiar to … Continue reading On Writing