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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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Grammar Bite: Don't Dangle Your Participles
Wed Jan 19 00:00:00 EST 2011
By Erin Brenner

Participle.

It's one of those words your English teacher used once or twice but that didn't really stick with you. Yet improper use of a participle can cause your sentence to blur before your readers' eyes. In this Grammar Bite, we'll define participles and look at how things can go awry with them. Conquer the dangling participle, and your writing will smarten up right away.  Continue reading...
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The "Due To" Argument
Mon Dec 27 00:00:00 EST 2010
By Erin Brenner

How do you feel about the phrase due to? Does it just mean "attributable to" to you, or can it also mean "because of"? Your answer may help explain where you fall along the prescriptivism-descriptivism usage continuum.  Continue reading...
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Grammar Bite: Making Subjects and Verbs Agree
Wed Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2010
By Erin Brenner

Subject-verb agreement sounds easy, doesn’t it? A singular subject takes singular verb, and a plural subject takes a plural verb. Yet The Copyeditor's Handbook lists no fewer than 25 cases that aren't so clear-cut, and Garner's Modern American Usage devotes nearly 5 columns to the topic. Even the comparatively diminutive Grammar Smart devotes five pages (including quizzes) to the topic. What makes subject-verb agreement so hard?  Continue reading...

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Punctuation Point: Joining Independent Clauses
Mon Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2010
By Erin Brenner

Recently, someone asked me about joining two independent clauses to make a compound sentence. She thought such a sentence would need a comma, but she often found them missing. Today, we'll review how to join independent clauses.  Continue reading...
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Grammar Bite: Adjective Basics
Thu Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2010
By Erin Brenner

Adjectives can be a writer's greatest friend, creating rich images and clear meaning. They can also be her worst enemy, convey conflicting ideas and tripping her up at every juncture. Today, we dip our toes into the pool of adjectives with a few general rules.  Continue reading...
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Punctuation Point: The Apostrophe, Beyond the Basics
Wed Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010
By Erin Brenner

Erin Brenner of Right Touch Editing provides "bite-sized lessons to improve your writing" on her engaging blog The Writing Resource. We previously heard from Erin about basic uses of the apostrophe, and now she takes a deeper look at apostrophe usage. You, too, can become an apostrophe superhero!  Continue reading...
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Free Your Writing from Buzzwords
Tue Aug 24 00:00:00 EDT 2010
By Erin Brenner

Have you used any of these words in your writing?

• Low-hanging fruit
• Learnings
• Efforting
They are buzzwords, popular industry words that people use to impress others.  Continue reading...
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