On Monday we introduced a number of revisions and updates to the stylebook. After Deadline will highlight some of those changes over the next few weeks. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/the-latest-style/

For this week’s roundup of grammar, style and other editing missteps, I turn once again to the popular After Deadline Quiz. Try to identify at least one problem in each of the passages. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/red-pencils-ready-9/

It’s been barely a month since my last litany of subject-verb agreement errors, but the file is overflowing once again. The topic is tedious, the errors exasperating. Readers notice and find it hard to understand why we make so many rather rudimentary mistakes. A good question. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/more-ugly-disagreements/

It’s commendable to add nuance or texture to our prose with a word that’s slightly out of the ordinary. Just be sure the word you pick is the right one, used the right way. It’s not enough to be in the general vicinity. And a misstep is all the more glaring if the word is […]