I’ve never been to a “con.” What I mean by this, of course, is a major “convention” (unless you count the Southern Baptist convention back in 2004, but that’s a story for a different column). I’m ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Last week, we discussed a few “rules” of grammar and usage, asking whether it was time to let them go. We ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Since most of us just switched to Daylight Saving Time (not “Savings”), let’s play a game called “Is it ...

Hopefully means “in a hopeful manner.” “I hope the boss lets us out early” and “Hopefully, the boss lets us out early” aren’t the same thing. On the other hand, these are grammar “rules” you can ...

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Ryan Standil is a former lawyer and the owner of Write To Excite. He leads seminars for businesses and governments about effective writing in the workplace. In the workplace, a handful of “grammar dos ...

Once upon a time, there were no grammar rules and writers were free to experiment with punctuation as they saw fit. It wasn’t until the late 1700s that grammar books became popular (and lucrative), ...

I’ve never been to a “con.” What I mean by this, of course, is a major “convention” (unless you count the Southern Baptist Convention back in 2004, but that’s a story for a different column). I’m ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. I've never been to a "con." What I mean by this, of course, is a major "convention" (unless you count the Southern Baptist convention back in 2004, but ...