Monday, February 20, 2006

More on Grammar

Lifehacker brought excellent advice for writing into the spotlight late last week. Lori Mortimer of Blogcritics presents an interesting review and counterpoint to recent advice published by blogger and columnist John Scalzi on writing for "nonprofessional writers."

Mortimer gracefully points out Scalzi's omissions of active voice, strong verbs, "sleep(ing) on it," and obtaining the review of one or two trusted readers. Mortimer highlights Scalzi's fuzzy guidance he gave for writing with regards to the period, comma, and semicolon. The most important thing I learned from Mortimer, though, is that a sentence is a structure, complete with included link to one of the most concise and generally fabulous grammar pages I have seen in a long time.

Thanks to Lori Mortimer for commentary that began to set me straight.


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1 comment:

Mary Godwin said...

The difficulty, of course, is that there are so many ways of being "straight." Though I'm not comfortable going the full run with Scalzi, I recognize nonetheless that fuzzy is often the way of it. That is, at least in part, where the "rhetorical" part of rhetoric and composition comes into play. Nice writing here. -mg