I just ordered this fun mug for our Grammar Police Editor, Sharon. Her kids will tell you she’s been not so silently doing this to them their entire lives. The Senior Care Content Specialists team feels lucky to have her (and her red pen) around…
As Sharon will tell you, it is tough to write online content that follows style guidelines. That is largely because people read quickly online only skimming for highlights. That makes it painful for editors and English teachers, we know. We typically follow a reasonable version of the MLA Style Manual unless otherwise requested. We try to use headlines, subheads and bullet points to break it all up. And we leave pretty white space so people aren’t overwhelmed. If we didn’t I could almost guarantee that I could insert a few recipes in the center of long strings of content and no one would notice…
Over the past month or so we’ve been asked more than a few times to make recommendations on books and websites people can refer to in an effort to keep their content grammatically correct. Since the importance of content is finally being understood, more and more senior living and home care companies are becoming their own publishers. With that (we’ve heard) have come some office thrown downs on grammar. We pulled together a few of our favorites to help keep our clients and colleagues from going all Justin Beiber and egging each others offices.
Here ya’ go…
The Elements of Style – William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White
A Writer’s Reference – Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers
The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law – Norm Goldstein, Editor
MLA Style Manual – Joseph Gibaldi
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation – Jane Straus
Grammar Girl Quick & Dirty Tips for Better Writing – Mignon Fogarty
There are also a couple of websites we love:
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