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Wilbers: Readers question 'shrunk' and use of singular 'their,' 'they'
A number of readers objected to my use of the third person plural their and they in reference to the singular person in the following sentence:
Updated: January 29, 2012, - 07:38 PM
Round up the usual grammar suspects
I was waiting to transfer flights at Chicago's Midway Airport when I overheard a man at the bar ask his companion, "On a scale of one to 10, how good are you?"
Updated: January 15, 2012, - 07:05 PM
Share your knowledge and help a younger writer succeed
At this time every year I usually write a New Year's column challenging you to improve your writing. This year I'd like to try something different. Rather than asking you to look inward, how about looking outward? I challenge you to share your knowledge with a younger writer.
Updated: January 01, 2012, - 10:15 AM
Wilbers: Good writers protect team members from harsh critics
I heard an interesting story the other day. It was both strange and oddly familiar.
Updated: December 25, 2011, - 03:44 PM
Writing reflects the writer, or at least the writer's persona
You have two kinds of style: surface and deep.
Updated: December 11, 2011, - 07:04 PM
Wilbers: Verbs can help you unstack awkward noun stacks
I was raking leaves in my back yard on a lovely fall day, lost in the swish and crinkle of childhood memories, when a familiar voice intruded on my thoughts.
Updated: November 27, 2011, - 09:27 PM
Wilbers: Don't allow the computer to dictate the way that you write
"Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words," Nicholas Carr writes in "The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains." "Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski."
Updated: November 13, 2011, - 03:57 PM
Don't allow the computer to dictate the way that you write
"Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words," Nicholas Carr writes in "The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains." "Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski."
Updated: November 13, 2011, - 12:30 PM
Correcting errors is last thing you should do
Revise comes from the Latin word revisere, meaning to visit or see again.
Updated: October 23, 2011, - 01:46 PM
In ethical persuasion, tell the whole truth
Do you always tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
Updated: October 09, 2011, - 02:47 PM
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