Bruce Leonard has been an editor, managing editor, city editor, associate editor, copy editor, contributing editor or reporter/photographer for dozens of publications. Smartphones, tablets, computers ...

Anyone who knows, or intuitively understands, that two words describing a noun are hyphenated ends up writing some compounds ...

Many of you are kind enough to share with me multiple forwarded collections of embarrassing headlines from other newspapers, unfortunate misspellings or captions, punctuation puns and dirty limericks.

We expect punctuation to do two things at once, and it confuses us. We expect it to mark the rhythms of speech, like rests in musical notation, and we expect it to clarify the meaning, the semantics ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. English departments will be chiefly responsible for teaching grammar, sentence structure and punctuation, under a draft new syllabus, ...

As lawyers, our existence is governed by rules: court rules, procedural rules, evidentiary rules and Bluebook rules, just to name a few. We are not, however, immune to the effects of media influences, ...

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from local government and international agencies to conduct research in the areas of teacher standards, spelling, literacy ...

Ailing literacy skills across Australia has triggered a major overhaul of one state's education system with grammar and punctuation the areas most in need of improvement. The English syllabus has been ...