Editing Category

Displaying book titles on the Web

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

What’s the proper way to display the title of a book on a Web page? The traditional method of underlining makes it confusing for Web users, who expect an underlined word or phrase to be a hyperlink. Should the title be bolded? Italicized?
A lot of underlining of book titles is used in bibliographies for [...]

Kindle Rocks as Editing Tool!

Monday, September 20th, 2010

A couple of weeks ago I received the Amazon Kindle I’d ordered weeks earlier. It was worth the wait.
I was in the middle of editing two different documents, and may I say that sitting down with the hard copy, some ice water, a red pen, and a Kindle makes editing faster and easier. Not [...]

All About Alliteration

Friday, February 15th, 2008

When is a Principal a Principle?

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Sentence Spacing Quandary

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Compliment or Complement?

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Homonym Heaven

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Insure, Ensure, or Assure?

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

Visual Thesaurus

Friday, December 30th, 2005