If you’re good at spotting grammar and spelling errors, you can get paid to read. Several sites enlist freelancers to copy edit and proofread everything from business documents to books, resumes to ...

Do you know the difference between “FAQ’s” and “FAQs” or “less oranges” and “fewer oranges”? Do you cringe when you see statements such as “all major credit cards excepted” or “hope you well”? If you ...

A couple of days ago, I received a desperate, all-caps text message from my younger sister asking for help with proofreading her First Big High School Essay. In all of my sisterly benevolence (and ...

I was rather scared to find my next book announced on Amazon as if it already existed, when parts of it hadn’t even been written yet. It made me realize that Polity Press was deadly earnest about ...

For a scholarly writer, completing a draft of an article or book brings a great sense of accomplishment. Whether we are next passing our work to a supervisor, journal editor, book publisher or simply ...