All About Semicolons
A semicolon is quite a versatile tool in modern English; it can join complete sentences, separate items in a list, and become a little pair of eyes in an emoji. Generally, semicolons are used to signal a pause or a break between ideas. They can also help your sentences be clearer and dispel confusion on your reader’s part!
The Craft of Nonfiction: On Writing Well by William Zinsser
William Zinsser was a journalist, writer, traveler, and teacher who produced decades’ worth of wonderful nonfiction writing during his lifetime. Here are 12 pieces of advice from the master himself on the art of crafting nonfiction!
3 Ways to Organize Your Memoir
Your life is full of memories, stories, lessons, and ideas. Some impart these stories and lessons aloud to friends, children, and grandchildren. Others may keep these memories locked away. Then, there are those who choose to put pen to paper and record their lives in a memoir, to be read and re-read across the future generations.
What’s the Deal with Dashes?
The use of dashes can cause confusion and contention between editors, authors, and readers—after all, there are three types of dashes, and they’re all just slightly different lengths of the same straight horizontal line.. What are the three types of dashes, and what can each do in a piece of writing?
My Writing Journey
“A writer is anyone who writes anything. Everyone in this class is a writer.” This is what I tell my students, year after year…
Should You Change Capitalization When Quoting Social Media Posts?
Let’s say you’re writing a blog and need to quote a social media post that contains no capitalization. Should you correct the capitalization in the quote or let it stand?