More and more professional writers, editors, and teachers rely on blogs to engage in online conversations about the nature of the writing process, from discovering fresh ideas to carefully editing a completed article or essay. Here you will find links to some of the more popular and useful blogs for writers and for teachers of writing.
Science-writer Mignon Fogarty maintains this helpful and witty blog (with podcasts) for students and teachers of English as well as writers, "word junkies, and "the intellectually curious." Join them!
Jay Heinrichs (in the persona of Figaro) rips out the innards of things people say and reveals the rhetorical tricks and pratfalls.
Bill Walsh's blog accompaniment to
The Slot, a website for his fellow copyeditors, considers some of the finer points of grammar and punctuation.
Andy Bechtel, who teaches editing and writing at UNC-Chapel Hill, discusses "editing and writing of all sorts" for the benefit of anyone "who loves words and the news."
Journalist John McIntyre looks at issues of language and writing, particularly grammar and usage, as they come up in the reporting of
The Baltimore Sun.
This engaging language site run by Mark Liberman and Geoffrey K. Pullum (authors of
Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log) is now in its fourth year.
A blog about pedagogy and English studies, by faculty and students at the University of Texas at Austin.
News editor Pam Robinson offers thoughts on language in the media.
Dr. Nancy Soonpaa (professor of law at Texas Tech) and Dr. Sue Liemer (assistant professor of law at Southern Illinois University) maintain this blog for their colleagues in the legal profession--but you don't have to be a lawyer to benefit from their sound advice on writing.
Paul R. Martin has been compiling this monthly bulletin for
The Wall Street Journal since 1987. Take the Quintessential Quiz to exercise your editing skills, and learn to recognize (and avoid) overworked expressions before they become full-fledged journalistic clichés.
