Hemingway Editor and Cliché Finder

Y’all! Please take note of these automated writing assistants that a Writing Instructor shared with me today. What I love about these is that they make you think about WHY you should change (or should consider changing) word choice and arrangement in specific sentences. Hemingway Editor — check out the demo at the link, where they […]

GUM: grammar, usage, and mechanics

I’ve been reading about grammar, usage, and mechanics today on the Writing Program Administrator listserv. Describing how and why we teach this sticky stuff takes up a lot of writing instructors’ time. What a perfect metaphor, right? Some days, we really step in it! Others, it’s a pleasing distraction or something to snap and pop about […]