All artistic structures are said to possess three formative and aesthetic qualities: order, connection, and rhythm. Jonathan Swift, the author of Gulliver’s Travels, once defined good style in writing ...

Centuries ago, the word “stickler” meant the judge of a duel who made sure all the rules were obeyed. To author Lynne Truss, those were the good old days. At least people listened to that kind of ...

Emmy J. Favilla is Global Copy Chief and creator of the BuzzFeed Style Guide and author of A World Without “Whom”: The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age. If a friend texts me with a ...

Its National Punctuation Day! If that sentence made you cringe, then welcome to the fold. Its, it's. Your, you're. Why can't people get it right? On Friday, Sept. 24, punctuation aficionados across ...

Mike Abramson is the master of federal government printing style. Anyone wondering about the proper use of “whereas” in a resolution, feeling confounded by the canons of capitalization in a committee ...