by Tweed Editing | Apr 3, 2020 | frivolity, writing tools
For everyone teaching, learning, working, and writing from home! A set of printable door tags that let everyone else know that you, for one, are trying to focus. To reinforce, print on card stock or mount on a manila folder. Stay safe, be well, take...
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 | Apr 29, 2013 | writing tools
The good folks at the Pedant, Claremont’s student newsletter, recently interviewed me about how make writing more pleasurable and routine (yes, both). The issue is out, and I see that they’ve quoted me using un accent circonflexe—I feel so fancy! Other...
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 | Aug 12, 2011 | frivolity, writing tools
A couple weeks ago, I drove to the Oregon coast with my sweetie, who is a Paul Krugman devotee. (Krugman is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton and writes an op-ed column and a blog for the New York Times.) As we wound through the forest,...
#SSP2023 and #AUPresses2023 are supercharging my understanding of OA and AI. (I want to make some kind of vowel pun… https://t.co/PJP5N6WFLE