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How To Use Italics
By Bonnie Mills Following the Rules Open up any style guide and it’ll give you a list of items that need to be italicized. The important thing to remember is that if your school or business follows a certain style guide, you should follow it too. The four main style guides that you may be asked to
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We’ve shared our pet peeves and highlighted the things you should not do in your flash fiction submissions. But today, I want to focus on some fundamental tips for writing flash fiction. Cause it ain’t easy! For Flash Fiction Online, stories must be between 500 and 1000 words. Whew! Those are some tight restrictions, and that’s not a
How To Use The Colon
Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl Today’s topic is how to use colons. One of my favorite old grammar books, titled “Punctuate It Right,” has a wonderful name for the colon: the author calls it the mark of expectation or addition. That’s because the colon signals that what comes next is directly related to the previous sentence. Often, it’s almost
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