Tag: Prescriptivism
17
Apr
Breaking the Style Guide: Using Corpora to Enhance Your Copyedits
by Allie Stevens
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Need some rules to show you when you can break the rules? Looking at corpora may provide examples on how and when to correctly defy...
05
Dec
When to Follow Your Intuition Instead of Prescriptive Rules
by Staff
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“When prescriptive grammar violates organic grammar, bad things can happen during the reading process.” —Bradford R. Connatser (2004, 265) To editors, it can sometimes seem...
