Category: Writing

Citations aren’t bad. I promise. Formal and semi-formal citations are important for anime blogging. Luckily, you don’t have to have every comma and period perfect for blog citations. The main purpose of citations isn’t to protect against plagiarism. They help readers find your sources. Citation design maximizes the ability of readers, and you, to find…

Adverbs add detail to verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. Many grammar wonks tell us to cut adverbs unless they are necessary. I mostly agree (see what I did there?). Most –ly words are unneeded and weaken writing. Rukia said quietly. Rukia whispered. Saying something quietly is the same as whispering. Whispered is a stronger word…

Writing focuses on word selection. English overflows with words. Choosing the perfect word is fun, and it is hard. Some words are tired like awesome, cool, and fuck. They appear so often that they lost their impact. Other words are obscure and snooty: ascertain, utilize, and hitherto. They make you appear arrogant. There are two…

Voice is your unique way of speaking. You use words in ways that make a verbal fingerprint. Verbal ticks like like, um, because, so are as important as how your voice sounds. The trick is writing close to how you speak. Writing has certain rules that need to be followed for clarity. Writing exactly as…

This article begins a week of articles that examine blogging tips and other writing information. ChatGPT and other language processing models will shift how we interact with the Internet. Such models are already being folded into search and may well replace search as the main way people seek information online. The models can produce coherent…