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 [...]

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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 [...]

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All About Alliteration

Friday, February 15th, 2008

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When is a Principal a Principle?

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

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Sentence Spacing Quandary

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

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Compliment or Complement?

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

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Homonym Heaven

Friday, June 1st, 2007

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Insure, Ensure, or Assure?

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

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Visual Thesaurus

Friday, December 30th, 2005

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