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And you can’t yell opinions in a crowded laboratory. You have to be aware of the qualitative assumption of your words. I recently edited a text where the author wrote,…

Increasingly, science journals are including in their instructions to omit "claims of primacy." This means phrases like "Ours is the first study to . . . " or "This is…

A method-ology is merely a method that someone is trying to make sound more important. It is adding a noun ending to a noun. Odder still is that the ending…

Its (possessive) vs. it's (it is). Is it hard to remember which one of these gets its apostrophe? It's.

Increasingly, I see people writing, as did a recent client about doing something, ". . . with the goals to educate and train. . . ." The problem is a…

To is a problem, too. To means direction; the word for also has an extra "o" too.

There there; everyone has trouble with these three. People: they're having trouble picking their word to use there.

With the NCAA basketball tournament and its brackets the talk of March, it seemed like the right time of year to write about brackets (as used in writing). Brackets are…