According to Erica Meltzer, our kids aren't being taught grammar effectively in our schools... so she wrote a book to help! The author of "How to Write for Class: a Student's Guide to Grammar, ...

New symbols are being designed; old marks are serving new purposes. And collectives are actively working to preserve the ...

Centuries ago, the word “stickler” meant the judge of a duel who made sure all the rules were obeyed. To author Lynne Truss, those were the good old days. At least people listened to that kind of ...

We’re using semicolons less and less; the apostrophe still stumps most of us. Meanwhile, @, #, :, ) have taken on new ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Writing an entire book on the semicolon intended for a mass readership is pretty audacious; the book’s very existence winks at you, ...

I received an email recently from a reader named Fred who’s unhappy about the way that language and writing standards have gone down the tubes since his school days in the 1950s and ‘60s. Here’s an ...