Writing

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…

  This month’s featured question comes from one of our authors. “In United States, which font style and size should I use, or which font style and size is popular?” Thanks for the great question! Fonts come in two general types, depending on whether they have serifs– these are the little “feet” on the letters. Fonts…