by Gail Kerzner | Aug 24, 2021 | Author Advice, College Admissions Essays, General Writing, Tips and Tricks
“Why is the English language so confusing?” my students and friends ask. Just recently, I was attending a small networking event of savvy businesspeople, and our meeting turned into a usage lesson (which I was happy to conduct). When they expressed their frustration...
by Gail Kerzner | Jun 28, 2021 | Author Advice, General Writing, Grammar, OOPSS, Tips and Tricks
Effective writing is clear and concise, right? In a previous blog and my eBook, 10 Tips to Self-Edit a Book, I offer Cut It Out! as a strategy to get rid of extraneous, meaningless words. These include very and really and fluff like due to the fact that instead of...
by Gail Kerzner | May 18, 2021 | Author Advice, General Writing, Grammar, OOPSS, Tips and Tricks
A laugh a day keeps the doctor away. I can’t eat raw apples, so I use laughter as my daily health routine. Fortunately for me, giggles are plentiful as I come across so many dangling and misplaced modifiers in all kinds of writing: formal and informal, business and...
