We demand precision in devices we buy, contracts we sign, rules of games we play. Yet some people resist rules of grammar. Those rules help us to be precise — to write exactly what we mean, so that no ...

The goal of science writing, just like any other type of writing, is to communicate ideas and information to an audience as efficiently and effectively as possible. Like other types of writing, ...

A hawk-eyed reader has delivered me a dose of comeuppance. He challenged my assertion that there is no such word as "upcoming." I recently described "upcoming" as an expedient combination of "coming" ...