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Department of redundancy department

When I was an assistant city editor, a buddy and I kept a list of redundant phrases that we had excised from the stories we rush-edited each night. It held more than a few classics. The best, I think,...

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Teaching Little Miss Opie

Always mind what you say — you never know who’s in your audience.Back in the mid-’90s, I taught creative writing at Vassar College for the Summer Institute for the Gifted. The students were precocious...

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Write Better: Seven Tips For Journalists

Concise, clear writing is one of the journalist’s best assets. No matter which platform you’re feeding — print, web, mobile or a technology to be named later — good writing separates the amateurs from...

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Grammar Check: e.g. vs. i.e.

I have a confession. Until I looked it up today, I wasn’t entirely sure of the difference between these two often-used abbreviations. Now I know:e.g. means “for example” (Latin exempli gratia). i.e....

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