Posts by Jennifer

Whew, that was a long gap between posts, but don’t think we’ve forgotten about italics while we’ve been busy editing manuscripts. Since it seems like every language blogger and editing service in the universe has written a post on italics, we’ve tried to make this more useful to you, the plant biologist, by including plant-specific…

As editors, we spend a lot of time putting some words into italics and removing italics from other words. You might wonder why all the bother with all these slanted letters, but carefully and consistently used, italics can make your paper clear, easy to read, and even more concise. Haphazard and inconsistent italics can confuse…

The title of this post was really hard for us to write, and even harder for us not to edit. It makes an important point, though— typos do happen, whether by a slip of the fingers on the keyboard, or by the seemingly sentient maliciousness of Microsoft Word Autocorrect. Luckily for you, we’ve been editing…