Style Guide Series—Starting in September, 2022, I’m featuring a different style guide each month. Introduction What is a Style Guide? A style guide is a reference for writers, editors, proofreaders, and publishers. It’s a means of ensuring consistency with questions of grammar and style. It addresses decisions such as spelling, which words to capitalize, and …

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Thoughts for the Month: Citations Research citations are unavoidable for research writers. Although they are among the most important elements of research writing and presentations, they are often also among the most neglected. These oversights are often the result of prioritizing the writing (articles and books) along with the visual and stylistic elements (presentations) over …

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Thoughts for the Month: July 2022 Is Your Web Content Trendy or Evergreen? This month’s post is for writers of blogs and newsletters and other social media copy. If you’ve researched web copy & content, you’ve likely encountered the term evergreen content, which is vital to a website’s search engine optimization (SEO).  What does it mean? …

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Describing my website revisions and reflecting on the journaling process.