The semicolon has been described as a “graceful pause” in writing. But this graceful punctuation mark is being forgotten.

Grammar and punctuation: the two most irritant-inducing things since time began when not used properly. Of course, we students have been spelling since those dreaded tests back in primary school but, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. English departments will be chiefly responsible for teaching grammar, sentence structure and punctuation, under a draft new syllabus, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. We talk about words a lot in this area of the paper. We’ve written about mispronunciation, strange neologisms, pet peeves and more. In ...

As lawyers, our existence is governed by rules: court rules, procedural rules, evidentiary rules and Bluebook rules, just to name a few. We are not, however, immune to the effects of media influences, ...

Your words are your most powerful weapons, and yet it’s easy to undermine yourself in written communication by violating some very simple rules of punctuation. Before I dive deeper into this, a ...

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from local government and international agencies to conduct research in the areas of teacher standards, spelling, literacy ...

Guidelines for grammar and style are not meant to intimidate or to uphold certain ways of writing over others. Rather, they are meant to assure students of the basic conventions of academic writing in ...

Incorrect spelling and punctuation can make or break a message and its intended meaning. And while we are all guilty of the odd typo or occasional grammar slip-up, as these people will confirm, a ...