Substituting spoken words with more precise words in parentheses when quoting a speaker is an art form that some news writers seem to have all mixed up. The dilemma usually […]
Curbing the tendency to pollute your writing with clichés is important for a professional reporter or writer. Australian television news, at present, seems to be having an inexplicably lazy preoccupation […]
Carrying on from a suggestion in yesterday’s Style Matters posting on missing punctuation, let’s look a bit closer at how writers can pick up more mistakes before their work is […]
In the rush to file stories or wrap up a manuscript, reporters and writers often overlook the simplest things, such as missing punctuation marks, which can alter intended meaning in […]
The purple panic is almost here, with Brisbane’s jacarandas – including ours – shortly to break out their lovely lavender blooms, heralding the start of the end-of-year exam season. Actually, […]
Older People Speak Out calls for clarity on what Australia’s political parties have planned for aged care service delivery As Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott crisscross the country ahead of […]
Australia is in the midst of yet more voting madness and we are counting the days until the outcome of the “most important federal election in a generation” is declared, […]
It’s not uncommon to read or hear a news story about a car colliding with a tree … or a fence … or a wall. That can never be so, […]
At some point, many reporters and writers are likely to be describing firearms of all kinds, whether in a crime report, a feature or a fictional account. Yet many of […]
So, what exactly is an “adjectival phrase” and why do writers need to take care when using one? An adjectival phrase is a series of words that describe, qualify or […]
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