The following except from “You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing, describes our work ethics as well.

Now what am I talking about? Just that. Is it ok to end sentences with prepositions like “about”, “for”, “at”, “of” etc.? Grammar Nazis would frown at the idea. Merriam-Webster Dictionary says that this rule originated in 1872 when John Dryden chastised Ben Jonson as "The preposition in the end of the sentence; a common fault with him.” M-W-Dictionary thinks that the rule is passé, and must be put to rest. These days, it is considered okay to use prepositions at the end of s

“So* avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.” ― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society Instead...use these. * We also don't approve of starting sentences with "So".

Our editors cracked up at this one. Excuse the blurriness. The quality of the clip is a product of the quality of the original and the prowess of our clipping tool, both of which aren't, as you can see, anything to write home about*. But on to the matter at hand, is "more wrong" wrong? You wouldn't catch our editors using it, or allowing it to pass in a formal document, but we commonly use it when we are arguing in-house about some fuzzy language aspect. Some expletives are

Document editing is a layered process . At the topmost layer is contextual editing, which is best performed by a human editor. The basic layer of grammar corrections can be performed by digital tools. While most word processors such as MS-Word and Apple Pages have built in grammar checks, there are also other free online software and apps that can help with grammar checks. At Valardocs, we use Grammarly for the first level of grammar check. Our copy editors use this tool to