These days, most of the Scripture that some Christians read is what pops up on the screen during a weekend sermon. When quoting a verse, we need to spell out…
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Since a period ends a statement, we know to put the period at the end of a sentence. But we still have one point to clarify: in quotations and dialogue,…
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With rapidly advancing technology, we aren’t far from a generation of graduating high school seniors who can’t understand why anyone would use a print book. If all they’ve seen are…
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A period marks the end of a statement. No other mark will do. Some writers want to pause between statements, using a comma. Don’t do that. Today’s readers want a…
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A dozen engineering students built an elaborate contraption to open and pour two cans of Coke. After all this effort and many trials that didn’t work quite right, the final…
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You can be smarter than college graduates with this one. Even some bestselling authors and experienced editors mistakenly use “in” when they should use “into,” carelessly encouraging readers to form…
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We want to be effective communicators or we wouldn’t open our mouths, pick up a pen, or compose an email. Yet the results aren’t always what we want, and the…
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Each morning Frank Ball reads a few comic strips to stir his creative thinking. In just a few frames, many of them tell an interesting story with beginning, middle, and…
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Much of today’s society won’t listen to your truth. Why? They have their own truth. To believe otherwise would require displacement of their truth with what they’ve always believed was…
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We know what we mean, but do we always mean what we say? The pictures in our minds can easily blind us to what readers will understand from our words.…
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