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 | Mar 10, 2014 | guides, style, tone
Section headings, a.k.a. subheads, can be powerful tools for the academic writer. Without them, chapters in scholarly books and journal articles would be huge, undifferentiated blocks of text. Subheads can announce topics, they can transition for us, they can display...
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 | Sep 10, 2012 | guides, publishing, style, writing tools
If you’re submitting articles to journals or shopping around your scholarly book proposal, content is key. But when you also adhere closely to a publisher’s or journal’s style guidelines, you demonstrate professionalism and your ability to honor...
by Tweed Editing | Mar 9, 2011 | publishing, style
On March 7, The Chronicle of Higher Education published an advice piece by Rachel Toor, assistant professor of creative writing at Eastern Washington University. In “Think of Yourself as a Writer,” Toor draws from her experience in scholarly publishing to...
by Tweed Editing | Nov 1, 2010 | style
Ben Zimmer, the heir to the late William Safire’s On Language column in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, made waves a few weeks ago with his ruminations on the editorial we. That kind of expression is in evidence when, for instance, I write something like...
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