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This blog addresses problems in grammar, research, and style that I have frequently encountered in my students' and my own writing. I aim to explain these problems and provide resources for others who may encounter similar difficulties.

Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Plain Written English

The purpose of this blog is simple: to explore the stylistic problems that I encounter while marking papers and reading articles on the Internet.  When I encounter a stylistic peculiarity, I will write a post about it and refer to electronic resources that address it.  Similarly, if you find any errors in my posts or on the Internet in general, please feel free to discuss them here.  I would like this blog to facilitate the learning of plain written English.

Considering Technorati's State of the Blogosphere report for 2010, I realize that stylistic features of written English do not figure amongst the most popular topics about which people blog.  They are not even mentioned even though blogs could not exist without consideration of style. 

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