“Grammar Girl? She must be a superhero!” exclaimed my daughter Katey last week when she was peeking over my shoulder as I read some of my tweets.
After I finished laughing, I stopped to think about what Katey said. I guess Katey’s right: Grammar Girl is my superhero. Anyone who can take a subject that could be [...]

The Gobbeldygook Manifesto
So few marketing and PR people write well. Many of the thousands of Web sites I’ve analyzed over
the years and the hundred or so news releases I receive each week from well- meaning PR people
are laden with these gobbledygook adjectives. So I wanted t
(tags: PublicRelations newsrelease writing)

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At a Poynter Institute seminar kickoff today, about a dozen faculty members from Statesboro to San Luis Obispo and from Miami Beach to Toronto gathered to discuss “Teaching Diversity Across the Curriculum.” In Poynter’s words, “If tomorrow’s journalists are to report and write about a dynamic, increasingly diverse society, they’ll need guidance in the classroom. [...]