Tips Tuesday

Here are excerpts from the most recent tips on SlawTips, the site that each week offers up useful advice, short and to the point, on practice, research, writing and technology.

Research & Writing

Comma Fails From People Who Should Know Better
Neil Guthrie

Exhibit A, posted on LinkedIn by a copywriter and editor: My husband, John Blank and I are relocating to Canada in April. Without a comma after John Blank (the name has been changed to protect the guilty by association), this means the writer is moving with an unnamed husband and this other dude, John Blank. …