Phoning it In
“Phoning it in” is a phrase I’ve used for a long time, but I’ve wondered lately if it’s not one…
“Phoning it in” is a phrase I’ve used for a long time, but I’ve wondered lately if it’s not one…
Did you know that it matters where in a sentence you place that helpful adverb “only”? Consider this sentence: Johnny…
A few months ago, I wrote about the correct use of “me,” “myself,” and “I,” which is tricky for a…
Last weekend, I visited my dad, sister, and her family to celebrate Christmas a bit early. Among the presents I…
For a while now, I’ve followed an occasional web comic called The Oatmeal. It is almost always at least a…
In a writing class I took while in college, a classmate who generally wrote very poorly once cited Ayn Rand…
I’ve had revisions on my mind a lot lately, mostly because I’ve been working on revising some of my writing…
Although we had computers when I was in college, I was in the habit of writing my many papers longhand.…
Last week, I wrote about showing vs. telling, and the comments kept coming back to the necessity for finding a…
Writing instructors and editors often dole out the suggestion that writers should show rather than telling, but it’s really pretty…
Often, people will use the word “which” when “that” is more appropriate. I think they do so because they believe…
The iamb is a metric foot in poetry composed of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed. Words such as…