Become a Better Writer: Grammar and Other Writing Skills

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Grammar Basics

Avoiding Comma Confusion - Moira Allen

Grammar Gaffes and How to Avoid Them - Marg Gilks

Handling Gerunds (and Their Relatives) - Dawn Copeman

HUMOR: How To Write Really Bad Fiction And Enjoy The Benefits Of Rapid Rejection - Hank Quense

Kill the Adverbs! - Kathleen Ewing

My Sister, Eileen... or My Sister Eileen? Understanding the Apposite Phrase - Moira Allen

The Oxford Comma (an infographic)

Punctuating Dialogue - Marg Gilks

Tense Matters: Verbs in the Past, Present, and Future - Victoria Grossack

Polishing Your Prose

Fewer Words Mean Bigger Bucks - Shaunna Privratsky

Less is More: 15 Quick, Clever and Clean Tricks to Reduce Manuscript Word Count - Devyani Borade

Targeting Enemy Words - Sandra Miller

Five Tips to Writing Great Subheads - Kristina Springer

How to Craft a Great Article, Part I: Structure, Focus, Unity and Flow - Dawn Copeman

How to Craft a Great Article, Part II: Hooks, Leads, and Endings - Dawn Copeman

The Use and Abuse of Dialogue Tags - Anne Marble

Writing for (not by) the Ear - Donnell King

Writing for the General Public: It's Not as Easy as it Sounds - Mary J. Breen

Editing and Proofreading

Becoming Your Own Editor - Moira Allen

Grammar Matters! - Moira Allen (editorial)

Proofread Your Article Professionally! - Janis Butler Holm

What a Good Editor Can Do For You - Patricia Fry

Why You Can't Rely on Your Spellchecker - Jan K. the Proofer

For more information, check our links to: Dictionaries and Glossaries · Grammar Resources · Critique Groups

The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed	Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation	The Elephants of Style: A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English	It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences
The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed	On Writing Well	Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose	Woe is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English

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