Everywhere you look and everything you read is all about how critical good writing skills are in this age of digital communication. In business, the memo is passe, replaced by email, now the mainstay of communication. Instant messaging is used in some environments, but it is being replaced by text messaging. Websites, blogs, forums — ...
Most of us know about, and we English types shudder at, the general demise of the English language from its pure and correct form. The causes are rampant and many, hailing from all ages and all segments of society, but the effect is the same: the “almost” acceptable use of the plural pronoun (they, them) ...
What to do when you are an expert, in this case — writing — and an English as Second Language (ESL) comes along and says you can’t write? I should have known when he criticized my first submission and I couldn’t find anything wrong. Right then and there it should have been exit stage left. ...