Recently, our trusty University Relations writer Kathleen shared an article by Helen Sword called Zombie Nouns. The article is about how often we “forget how ordinary people speak,” and how nominalizations (nouns formed from other parts of speech) have begun to overpopulate all types of writing. Academians are notorious abusers. It got me thinking about how… Read more »
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Web Style 101: Two Facts
I don’t know anyone with a Ph.D in Writing for Web, but I know a lot of people who get thrown into online publishing without any previous experience – our student organization webmasters and our staff CMS editors, for example! Because so many of us have learned by doing, it’s important to keep improving our… Read more »