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Erin Brenner

Erin Brenner is the founder of Right Touch Editing, a customizable editing service. She has been an editing professional for over 15 years and is sought after for her expertise in language mechanics. She works on a variety of media in all levels of editing. In addition, she provides bite-sized lessons to improve your writing on her blog The Writing Resource and is the editor of Copyediting.com, which offers advice and training for those who edit copy. Follow her on Twitter at @ebrenner or on Facebook.
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"Cacophony": A Word for the Digital World
Tue Feb 07 00:00:00 EST 2012
By Erin Brenner

Erin Brenner of Right Touch Editing provides "bite-sized lessons to improve your writing" on her engaging blog The Writing Resource. Here Erin offers a "word story" on cacophony, which she finds to be "a very apt term for the digital world."  Continue reading...
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On Account of My Peeve
Tue Nov 22 00:00:00 EST 2011
By Erin Brenner

Recently I was writing a tweet and typed "on account of." Something about it seemed wrong to me, but I couldn't say what. I rewrote my tweet, determined to look into the troubling phrase when I had a moment.  Continue reading...
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Grammar Bite: Making Media Agree
Thu Nov 17 00:00:00 EST 2011
By Erin Brenner

When media is used to refer to "means of mass communication," should it be considered a singular or plural noun? According to Erin Brenner, founder of Right Touch Editing, the answer depends on whom you ask.  Continue reading...
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Grammar Bite: Agreeable Pronouns
Tue Jul 19 00:00:00 EDT 2011
By Erin Brenner

"Chicago stretches along the shore of Lake Michigan, which makes a beautiful shore drive possible." This sentence has a problem with pronoun-antecedent agreement: which is vague; its antecedent (the noun the pronoun stands for) is unclear. Today, we'll review some basics of pronoun-antecedent agreement and find out why agreement is so important.  Continue reading...
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Punctuation Point: Defending the Em Dash
Tue Jun 21 00:00:00 EDT 2011
By Erin Brenner

In a recent Slate article about the em dash, Noreen Malone demonstrates what overuse of the punctuation looks like. Her article is so overloaded with em dashes that the reader is left dizzy and confused. A paragraph would have done the trick in my mind, but the article certainly makes its point.  Continue reading...
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Grammar Bite: "Of Which" as the Starch in Your Collar
Thu Feb 24 00:00:00 EST 2011
By Erin Brenner

The following is the second part of Erin Brenner's response to the recent piece by Simon Glickman and Julia Rubiner, "'Whose' an Animate Object?" In the first part, Erin considered the use of that to refer to people, and here she examines whether whose should be used for inanimate objects.  Continue reading...
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Grammar Bite: Who's That?
Wed Feb 23 00:00:00 EST 2011
By Erin Brenner

In a recent article on the Visual Thesaurus, Simon Glickman and Julia Rubiner state that when referring to a person, the writer should always use who and never that. Often I agree with what Glickman and Rubiner say, but not this time.  Continue reading...

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