I just got my first freelance assignment to help with publishing a study protocol. Journals are encouraging publishing of protocols from studies that are funded but not yet begun…
Thank goodness for a liberal education. What medically trained medical editor or technical writer could properly review my current freelance assignment: a Foucauldian analysis of nursing texts? My cultural studies…
A lingua franca is any set of language words and constructs that are agreed upon by a set of people. For example, for academics it is lingua franca to say…
A while ago my brother, an environmental planner, had to give a presentation about proposed radio antenna towers. He told me that the plural is antennas for radio towers, though…
When is a plural verb not a plural verb? When it's the subjunctive form. Compare these sentences. "If I was drunk at the time I made the offer, then it…
When is a consonant not a consonant? Answer: When it's a word. The word for the letter "N" for example is "en." Thus, you get a National Institutes of Health…
The other day I helped an author be clear about what findings she could and could not report in the first of two articles she hopes to publish about one…
One typo I consistently type results in two words that are spelled correctly: "doe snot." Does it convey what I intended? does not