Category: Writing
29
Apr
What Kind of Books Do Children Prefer to Read?
by Abby Andrus
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Writers, editors, and publishers can better cater to young readers if they understand what children like to read. Being so far removed from childhood, adults...
01
Apr
Technical Writing Skills You Need in the Workplace
by Sarah Griffin Anderson
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Technical writers must keep up with ever-evolving technology, and this research shows you the skills you’ll need to keep pace. As an editor and writer...
17
Apr
Writing and Editing Creative Nonfiction: Start Here
by Emma Rostrom
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As a writer or editor, you can improve your ability to work with creative nonfiction by learning about stylistic tendencies within the genre. The genre...
24
Apr
How to Write Teen Characters Without Sounding, Like, Too Old
by Aaron Green
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By integrating new styles of speech into dialogue, authors can give their characters distinctive, believable voices. Whether it’s the creation of new words, pronunciations, spellings,...
08
Apr
Can ChatGPT Fact-Check Your Writing?
by Katie Greene
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By understanding the limitations of using large language models for fact-checking, writers and editors can learn to use these tools productively. As large language models...
30
Nov
Consistency Is Key: Using Style Guides Effectively
by Payton Pingree
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While you may sometimes find style guides restrictive and tedious to follow, they provide the basic guidelines for creating clean, consistent, comprehensible text. Copy editing...
20
Jun
This Philosopher’s Use of the Em Dash Challenges Punctuation As We Know It
by Hannah Ackerman
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The work of one world-renowned German philosopher from the 1800s uses em dashes in unusual and innovative ways, challenging the rules of punctuation over a...
18
Jun
Picking Up Pens: The Prosocial Power of Transportive Fiction
by Karly Lay
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Ever wondered whether fiction has the power to influence real-world behavior? One study that tested participants’ willingness to help pick up pens suggests that the...
20
Jun
Think You Have the Same Expectations as Your Editor? Think Again!
by Michael Pulsipher
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Worldwide connections cause postgraduates and editors to work together from different countries. Therefore, expectations need to be clarified from the very beginning. Haidee Kruger and...
18
Jun
Can “Eye” Get Some Feedback?
by Marie Lefler
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Can eye tracking and keystroke logging tell us more about how we write and how we can write better? Writing is a difficult task for...
