Writing
I can’t overstress the value of Chip Scanlan’s Poynter Institute column as a resource for making you a better reporter and writer.
Interesting site here on common English usage errors, with links to commonly misused and misunderstood words. (The list is a little overwhelming; if you’re looking for something specific, use the browser’s Find function.) The site is from Washington State University, so there’s an American slant to things. You an follow up anything you learn there [...]
John Rains, a newspaper writing coach in North Carolina, has a Weblog that offers advice, tips and guidance to keep your writing fresh. Worth checking out and bookmarking for occasional updates.
…but not as confused as a NY Times writer appears to be. Even the big newspapers slip once in a while, particularly when the writer — or copy editor — clearly doesn’t understand what he’s writing about. Good journalism demands clarity — not only of writing, but of thought.
Here are a few more tips, based on the grading I’m doing this evening, to improve your copy. Note that the sentence above has two parts to it, one of which — “based on grading…” — is dropped into the middle of the other. It’s set apart from the main sentence by commas — one [...]
A brief review on how to write out quotes, which seem to be a little troublesome.
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