Episode 44
How to manage the grammar police
The Editing Podcast · Louise Harnby (fiction editor) and Denise Cowle (non-fiction editor)
April 15, 202015m 55s
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Show Notes
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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Music Credit
‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.