When Isolating Thoughts, Finish the Way You Start

When isolating thoughts with commas, dashes and semicolons, people tend to mix and match these marks of punctuation for some odd reason. As if they don’t want to leave any of them out of a particular...

How to Avoid Redundancy

Saying the same exact thing twice in the same sentence is a waste of everyone’s time. Being redundant is almost like being irrelevant. And if you really think about it, saying something more than once...

The Never-Ending Battle with Autocorrect

While it tends to act quite favourably when you’re typing at lightning speed on a mobile device, autocorrect is more of a troublemaker most of the time. Especially when it comes to texting or emailing...

If vs. Whether

We can always question whether we’re using the right conditional word, even if it’s grammatically correct. In many cases, if and whether can be used interchangeably. But there is a time and place where...

Watch Out for Run-On Sentences

This is by far the most common correction an editor will come across. It makes sense, especially with someone who isn’t necessarily a writer, per se. People get lost in their own train of thought, and...

How to Take Constructive (and Not-So-Constructive) Criticism

Relevant in all branches of the craft, criticism for writing is bound to find its way to you. Some take it better than others; some give it better than others. We have little control over how we get it,...

Semi Colon or Em Dash?

When it comes to separating thoughts and clauses, this tends to be quite a complex distinction to make. Especially when you involve colons and commas as well. Oh, the joys of the English language! For...

Like vs. Such As

This is a very common instance of confusion, although in most cases the two are interchangeable. Only a real stickler (or very dedicated editor) would single these out as errors. In any case, it helps...

An Editor’s Favourite Words to Cut (And Ones to Replace them with)

All-too-common words are usually found at the start of sentences. Often, these words are just filler and set you up to write run-on sentences. The thing is, these words aren’t always necessary to your...

Tips to Ensure Professional Writing is Always Professional

Catchy headlines, sales copy and fictional writing are inclined to break the rules of writing and get away with it. And all the power to them. That just means professional writing is easier to execute...

When to Drop the “s” at the End of Words

We see it all the time in all kinds of words: toward and towards, anyway and anyways, afterward and afterwards. Generally speaking, these words have the same meaning with or without the “s,” and both...

Inquire vs. Enquire

Having recently come across this particular distinction, we thought it would be noteworthy to clear it up. Inquire, meaning to ask for further information, is generally interchangeable with enquire —...

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