Need a little help with everyday or business English?
I’m Judy Vorfeld, and I spend a great deal of time editing text. I’m surrounded by excellent printed resources and have access to excellent online resources. Most of the articles below are used in my blog, the Writing Center.
If you have a question regarding everyday business language, contact me! I’ll do my best to research your question.
The Writing Center (Blog) Basics
Grammar Basics
Grammar Tips
Homonyms
Idioms
Dictionaries & Glossaries
Common Grammar Mistakes
Typography: Arranging Type to Make Language Visible
Writing Resources
Other Articles and Tips
A or An before “Historic”?
Abbreviations, Acronyms, & Initialisms
Abbreviating Months and Days of the Week
Adjectives
Adverse or Averse?
Articles: How to Use Them with Abbreviations
Affect or Effect?
All About Alliteration
A Lot or Alot or Allot?
Attributive Nouns Punctuation
Among vs. Between
Awhile or A While
Book Titles on the Web: What’s the Style?
Bulleted Lists: Capitalization and Punctuation
Business Letter Formatting
Capitalization in Titles and Headings
Commas
Compass Point Capitalization
Compliment-Complement
Commonly Misspelled Words in Phrases
Continuous vs. Continual
Criteria-Criterion
Dashes: How to use them in text
Desktop Publishing That Works (pdf file)
Different Than or Different From?
Dissemble vs Disassemble
Due to or Because Of?
Eek vs Eke
Et al. Punctuation
Ending Sentences with Prepositions
Exclamation Marks
Figures of Speech
Free Reign or Free Rein?
Many Facets of Fonts
Figures of Speech
Former vs. Latter
Have vs. Ought
Homonym Heaven
How to Win the Grammar Game
Insure, Ensure, or Assure?
Imply vs. Infer
Is it its’, it’s, or its?
Is the Internet Changing Everything?
Lay vs Lie
Less vs Than
Like as Slang
Me, Myself, and I: Confusing Reflexive Pronouns
Maybe or May Be?
Organizational Names: Singular or Plural?
Polished Presentations
Possessives: Attributive Nouns
Principle vs. Principal
Put Your Online Text To Work!
Quotation Marks with End Punctuation
Quotation Marks for Common Expressions & Figures of Speech
Redundant Words & Phrases
Business Salutations
Six Confusing Words Beginning with “C“
Suspended Hyphens
Subject/Verb Agreement for Corporation & Organization Names
Titles in Articles and Correspondence
Titles and Headings: Capitalization
Underlining, Bolding, & Italicizing
Viola, Viola, or Voila?
When it’s Okay to Break Grammar & Design Rules
Who’s the King? Content or Copy?
Words that Often Obfuscate
Your Fault or You’re Fault?
