Style tip #1 (Proper nouns)

Tip: Pepper your writing with proper nouns, rather than regular nouns.

(Because saying that she sipped Evian beats saying that she sipped water.)

“I need help with grammar!” (Part 3)

I stumbled across a site featured on the WordPress homepage, which poked fun at “suspicious” quotation marks. One click led to another, and I discovered this useful blog:

Grammar Girl: Quick and dirty tips for better writing

The site includes:

• General tips
• Grammar tips (what’s the difference between “like” and “such as”?)
• Punctuation help (when do you use single, and when do you use double quotation marks?)
• Advice on word choice (do you say “between”, “compared to” or “compared with”?)
• Style tips

 

The Economist’s Style Guide

Like the way writers at The Economist write?

Here’s the Style Guide that is given to all their journalists – some are seemingly small and insignificant tips, but put them together and you’re on your way to improving you language score.

But don’t just take my word for it – try it and you’ll see.