by Tweed Editing | Aug 27, 2010 | style
It’s a danger inherent to complex and formal writing, and I see this mistake often while editing—and in revising my own writing. It’s the error of attributing multiple, competing causes to the main clause in a sentence. Here’s a totally fabricated...
by Tweed Editing | Aug 25, 2010 | style, writing tools
Continuing the trend of capitalization-related posts, here is an ode to the wonders of small caps, a formatting trick that elevates the look of documents instantaneously. For beautifully typeset headings, try small caps. It gives the look of initial capital letters...
by Tweed Editing | Aug 24, 2010 | style
Microsoft Word has a handy tool for rectifying inadvertent caps lock: Change Case. This feature will take A PASSAGE LIKE THIS and make it A Passage Like This or a passage like this. All you need to do to access this feature is hit SHIFT+F3 on a Windows-based computer...
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 | Jun 10, 2010 | guides, style
The TWEED Guide to Academic Style gives you a place to start the sometimes-daunting revision process. Brush up on the syntactical, grammatical, and tone-related indicators of scholarly writing. Attention to style signals to your readers that you are serious about your...
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