Twitter’s format lends itself to strange abbreviations, missing punctuation, and so on. But if you’re trying to build a business brand — or if you’re a reputable news organization — it’s worth taking a few extra seconds to proofread your tweet and make sure it makes sense and contains no errors (other than those you’ve [...]

A surprising number of writing and editing mistakes combined to result in the New York Times publishing an article about Walter Cronkite that contained a whopping seven errors, including incorrect names and dates, among other problems.
When I was in journalism school, we were automatically docked 50% on any assignment that had a name spelled wrong [...]

I saw this Google Ad in Gmail today:

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I’m not sure I’d want to take Business Writing courses from a  place that can’t spell “correspondence”…

What I mean, of course,  is not that I’m confused by President Obama’s speeches, but that he has a tendency to choose the wrong pronoun when referring to himself. Like many people, he seems to have had the “Suzy, Sally, Billy, and I” pattern drilled into his head as a child to the extent that [...]

When editing corporate copy, I see a lot of simple mistakes that end up making the business sound pretty goofy. Here’s a typical example of a common mistake:
Suites have newly renovated bathrooms with granite counter tops and hairdryers.
The granite counter tops sound great, but those granite hairdryers are probably pretty heavy…
The problem here is that [...]