Articles by Judy Vorfeld

Need a little help with everyday or business English?

I'm Judy Vorfeld, and I spend a great deal of time editing text. I'm surrounded by excellent printed resources and have access to excellent online resources. Most of the articles below are used in my online syndicated column.

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Judy's Writing Tips

1. A or An before "Historic"?
2. Abbreviations, Acronyms, & Initialisms
3. Abbreviating Days and Months
4. Adjectives
5. Adverse or Averse?
6. Articles: How to Use Them With Abbreviations
7. Affect or Effect?
8. All About Alliteration
9. A lot or Alot?
10. Among vs. Between
11. Awhile or A While
12. Book Titles on the Web: What's the Style?
13. Bulleted Lists: Capitalization and Punctuation
14. Business Letter Formatting
15. Commas
16. Compliment-Complement
17. Commonly Misspelled Words in Phrases
18. Criteria-Criterion
19. Dashes: How to use them in text
20. Desktop Publishing That Works (pdf file)
21. Due to or Because Of?
22. Eek vs Eke
23. Ending Sentences with Prepositions
24. Exclamation Marks
25. Many Facets of Fonts
26. Former vs. Latter
27. Have vs. Ought
28. Heading and Headline Capitalization Tips
29. Homonym Heaven
30. How to Win the Grammar Game
31. Insure, Ensure, or Assure?
32. Imply vs. Infer
33. Is it its', it's, or its?
34. Possessives: Attributive Nouns
35. Quotation Marks with End Punctuation
36. Is the Internet Changing Everything?
37. Lay vs. Lie
38. Me, Myself, and I: Confusing Reflexive Pronouns
39. Maybe or May Be?
40. Organizational Names: Singular or Plural?
41. Polished Presentations
42. Possessives: Attributive Nouns
43. Principle vs. Principal
44. Put Your Online Text To Work!
45. Redundant Words & Phrases
46. Salutation Protocol
47. Six Confusing Words Beginning with "C"
48. Suspended Hyphens
49. Subject/Verb Agreement for Corporation & Organization Names
50. Titles in Articles and Correspondence
51. Titles and Headings: Capitalization
52. Underlining, Bolding, & Italicizing
53. When it's Okay to Break Grammar & Design Rules
54. Who's the King? Content or Copy?
55. Words that Often Obfuscate
56. Your Fault or You're Fault?

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