According to Erica Meltzer, our kids aren't being taught grammar effectively in our schools... so she wrote a book to help! The author of "How to Write for Class: a Student's Guide to Grammar, ...

When Lynne Truss wrote, in her best-selling 2003 grammar screed Eats, Shoots & Leaves, of “a world of plummeting punctuation standards,” she was (perhaps unwittingly) joining an ancient tradition. How ...

The University Style Guide is designed to help writers and communicators across campus with matters of grammar and style, whether writing for the University’s internal or external audiences. This ...

A bearded man walking the streets deeply engrossed in reading a book. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815. (Courtesy of the Wellcome Collection) The rules that govern English usage have never been ...

Grammarly, the popular tool that aims to help you avoid grammar and style gaffes, today announced the launch of custom style guides for its paying business users. Like with any style guide, the idea ...

ArchiveI remember a fellow journalist telling me how her J-school professor once ordered students to write out the entire AP Stylebook by hand as part of a class project. The exercise, I was told, was ...

Writing with proper grammar is one of the easiest ways to establish credibility. For example, when was the last time you trusted the guy who opened his email with “Hello please sirs and madam” and ...

As indicated in the introduction to Division of Marketing and Communications’ Grammar and Style Guide: Correct grammar, punctuation, and “style” may seem old-fashioned these days, but their absence in ...

I’m a big believer in rules. Rules bring order to what otherwise might be chaos. Rules set expectations. Rules guide human behavior (and sometimes non-human behavior). Heck, rules guide how machines ...

RICHMOND, Va. - In an era when students’ social media skills often surpass their writing skills, many American high school students are just not prepared for the rigorous college curriculums that ...