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Ending Sentences with Prepositions

Posted by Erin on Sep 3, 2010 in It's the Little Things

You’ve likely heard the famous quote by Winston Churchill, prompted by an editor who rearranged a sentence of his to avoid ending it with a preposition: “This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.”
Prepositions such as “with,” “of,” “in” and “to” let the reader know where  a noun is [...]

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5 Ways to Improve Your Feature Writing

Posted by Erin on Feb 5, 2010 in 5 Ways

Feature writing for print is changing. Once upon a time the only competition magazines and other feature-friendly media had was the newspaper, and then only on Sundays. But the Web’s instant-satisfaction information high has shortened attention spans. To hold the reader’s attention through page after page takes careful planning and some extra thought. Here are [...]

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