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Avoid Cliche in Your Writing

  • Feb 9th, 2007
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    Writers who defend their clichés on the grounds that “they wouldn’t have become clichés if they weren’t good” may have a terrific point. And they should enjoy that, because what they won’t have is successful writing.
    A cliché is a word or phrase that’s been overused. It may have been a clever phrase when it was […]

    No, the Chicago Manual is NOT stuffy!

  • Aug 16th, 2006
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    I found this on the Chicago Manual of Style website, and felt compelled to share it with my readers (both of you).

    Q. In a software application that catalogues musical albums in a sidebar column for playback selection the main developer insists on using italics for the album titles. I advised to drop the italics mainly […]