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 ...
Many of you are kind enough to share with me multiple forwarded collections of embarrassing headlines from other newspapers, unfortunate misspellings or captions, punctuation puns and dirty limericks.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. English departments will be chiefly responsible for teaching grammar, sentence structure and punctuation, under a draft new syllabus, ...
Incorrect spelling and punctuation can be the making or breaking of a message. While everyone was taught about the importance of correct grammar at school, many didn't bother to pay attention and are ...
As lawyers, our existence is governed by rules: court rules, procedural rules, evidentiary rules and Bluebook rules, just to name a few. We are not, however, immune to the effects of media influences, ...
Two big things have been happening on the internet, in relation to orthography. New styles have proliferated; and old punctuation marks have begun to develop new meanings. Regular emailers will have ...
Ailing literacy skills across Australia has triggered a major overhaul of one state's education system with grammar and punctuation the areas most in need of improvement. The English syllabus has been ...