Two Colons Too Many: Super Editor, Where Are You?
Faster than a speeding em-dash! More powerful than an exclamation point! Able to leap tall buildings in a single carat! Look! Up in the sky! It’s a semicolon! It’s an ampersand! It’s SUPER EDITOR!...
View ArticleApostrophe Usage…Apostrophailure
What’s a grammarian to do? Yet another example of department store sign apostrophailure–that is, a baffling disregard for apostrophe usage! I must say…there must be 1 lucky boy to be have his own...
View Article10 More Commonly Confused Words
You can sound great by tackling these commonly confused word pairs Assault/Battery Although often interchanged in common speech, these two terms have different connotations in legal context. Assault...
View Article43 Hot Grammar Tips of 2013
Check out these Hot Grammar Tips 1. Awhile=adverb: She stopped there awhile. A while=noun phrase that follows for: He thought for a while before answering. 2. Nouns can sometimes function as an...
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10 Business Tips You Can Use in 2014
Need to refresh your strategy for 2014? Here are 10 business tips to get you started… 1. If you misstate your point, spell-check won’t correct you or suggest alternative wording. And if you’ve taken...
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Time Management Tools for Students
Persistence over Procrastination by Ivy Rutledge Ask around on a college campus about personal goals for the new semester, and I bet you’ll hear a chorus: “I’m going to try not to procrastinate so...
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Professional Communication in a Multi-Generational Workplace
STRETCH YOUR COMMUNICATION SKILLS by Ivy Rutledge Right now in the United States, three generations are coexisting and collaborating in the workplace. Sure, there has always been a generation gap, but...
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8 Graduate Student Research Tools
For graduate students in nearly every field, research is a fact of life. Keeping your graduate student research organized and moving forward can be a challenge, but there are a myriad of good apps...
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The Rise of Coworking Spaces
by Ivy Rutledge Are you one of the over 13 million Americans working remotely? According to the United States Census Bureau, this number is steadily rising among workers in all industry and...
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5 Signs That You Need an Academic Editor
by Ivy Rutledge Oftentimes, we find that students seek the assistance of an academic editor merely days before deadline. Typically, they’re finishing papers at the last minute, not leaving any time...
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Are You a Quote-aholic?
by Ivy Rutledge Quotes and quotations are hot right now, as evidenced by the success of Cheryl Strayed’s new book of quotations, Brave Enough. In the introduction, Strayed says “I think of quotes as...
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Business Promotion: Tap the Potential of Today’s Publishing Landscape
by Ivy Rutledge We all know that the publishing landscape has changed drastically over the last few decades. Have you considered the ways these changes can work for your business promotion? The...
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Prep Your Books & Bookshelves for Summer
by Ivy Rutledge The arrival of spring and summer has traditionally been a time to prepare the home for a new season or year. While it’s easy to overlook your books and bookshelves during this process,...
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