Posts Tagged ‘style’
October 19th, 2009
By: Julia Jackson
Meet Larry Smith
Meet Larry Smith: writer-editor extraordinaire. His writing has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Men’s Journal, Popular Science, Slate, and Salon. He was also the senior editor at ESPN The Magazine, executive editor at Yahoo! Internet Life, articles editor at Men’s Journal, founding editor of P.O.V., editor-in-chief of Egg, and an editor of Dave Eggers’ Might magazine. His online magazine, SMITH Mag, provides a host of resources for everyday writers, and also features the Six-Word Memoir project, which has produced enough memorable memoirs to publish a series of Six Word anthologies. He enthusiastically agreed to answer some questions for us for our third installment of Writing Careers: Real Tips from Real Writers.
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July 28th, 2009
By: Garin Kilpatrick
Finding your own writing style can take a lifetime. But, don’t fret, we’ve identified 5 ways to immediately improve your writing style and effectiveness. Style helps create substance within every sentence. The following five tips are stepping stones on the path to stylistic success:
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May 2nd, 2009
There’s a famous Vampire Weekend song that wonders why anyone actually cares about Oxford Commas. Vampire Weekend obviously cares enough about the Oxford Comma to write a song about it, and they surely have a competent understanding of grammar (they did all go to Columbia). After you become a famous rock star, you can forget about grammar too, but as a student hoping to impress your English teachers, it’s important that you understand what the Oxford Comma does and how to properly use it in a sentence.
So, what is this infamous Oxford Comma? This comma, which is also sometimes referred to as the ‘Harvard comma,’ (don’t ask me why) is used in sequences of three or more items, immediately before the preposition that precedes the final item.
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