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 ...

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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 ...

The early style guides came in the form of manuscripts and books, mainly out of academia and journalism. They were made for print, in print. Left, Associated Press, 1998. Right, University of Chicago, ...