by Tweed Editing | Apr 21, 2014 | punctuation, style, tone, writing tools
It’s a pity when surface problems scuttle otherwise strong scholarship. As an editor, I’ve noticed that poorly handled quotations are particularly damning. Inelegant use of prior scholarship can give the impression that a writer is unsophisticated, or...
by Tweed Editing | Dec 16, 2013 | punctuation, style, writing tools
You know how sometimes you see quotation marks and apostrophes that turn toward the text they’re associated with—and sometimes they’re just straight up and down, almost like hatch marks? The former kind go by many names: directional quotation marks, smart...
by Tweed Editing | Aug 9, 2010 | punctuation, style
Sometimes quotes just don’t want to fit within the structure of our sentences. Unless you are in a legal field, some sciences, or writing for a UK publisher, you can silently tame quoted material in a number of permissible ways. This means that you don’t...
by Tweed Editing | Aug 7, 2010 | punctuation, style
When we write a list within a sentence, we often want to make the structure absolutely clear by numbering or lettering the items in the series. For students and junior scholars, the divided list is even more important, as it is the well-known writers who can assume...
by Tweed Editing | Apr 19, 2010 | guides, punctuation, style, tone
While powerful communication devices, scare quotes are also easy to abuse. They’re used to distance the writer from the term in question. When someone makes the two-finger air-quotes gesture while speaking, that’s the real-world equivalent of...
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