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How to manage the grammar police
Episode 4415th April 2020 • The Editing Podcast • Louise Harnby (fiction editor) and Denise Cowle (non-fiction editor)
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Denise and Louise discuss the grammar police, how to manage them, and why they're nothing to do with professional editing.

Listen To Find Out More About:

  • Who are the grammar police?
  • Social media and the grammar police
  • Pedantry versus professional editing for style, preference and flow
  • Writing style: Business, academia, web copy, creative non-fiction, fiction
  • Conventions and standards versus rules and errors
  • How and when to tell a writer about an error
  • Dealing with the grammar police

Editing Bites

  • Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation by Jane Straus
  • TextExpander

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‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.

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