Has it become common practice to hyphenate a word, and on the next line leave only two letters dangling?I know the new graphics program we're using allows this, but I call my designer to task and...

Some, including my staff, might say I'm very picky. But how in the heck annoying is it when the text is closer to a photo or graphic on one side, then far away on the other?I know relief...

OK, you're looking at the layout just back from the design team. One paragraph is five lines long, but the last line has only three letters in it, perhaps even a partial word that's been...

As an editor, how irritating is it to you when a writer doesn't understand that a company is an "it" instead of "they?" Or they give you sentences like, "The people that started the project,"...

I've learned that the profession of "editor" really encompasses a wide variety of jobs. What sort of editing do you do? Do you edit a newspaper, magazine, books, or something else?I currently...

The serial comma is the comma that comes before a conjunction in a series of three or more items. I do not understand, however, why most people don't use it. The serial comma reduces ambiguity. It...