Supreme Court Reality?
Concurring Opinions has a great idea for a reality television show based on the Supreme Court. I am not a fan of those shows, but I sure would watch this one.
Posted on 6:31 AM by Susan
Active and Passive and Grammar & Style Check
More on passive vs. active. As I and many other bloggers have noted, the condemnation of passive voice has tempered somewhat and most agree that active voice is not always best.
Lynn Gaertner-Johnson at Business Writing points out that Microsoft Word can help identify passive voice in your writing. Simply change the grammar check option to “grammar and style” rather than “grammar only.” Then Word will alert you to the passive voice just as it alerts you to sentence fragments and misspellings.
Posted on 6:34 AM by susan
Thoughtful and Thoughtless Writing
Legal Literacy has 12 rules for avoiding smoking guns. Following these rules is probably good advice for any reason.
In another post,
Legal Literacy gives a thoughtful quote on how e-mail can often be so thoughtless:
While on the one hand e-mail encourages people to write, on the other hand it discourages people to write thoughtfully.
Mary Mitchell, author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Etiquette as quoted in “‘Yours Truly,’ the E-Variations,” New York Times, Nov. 26, 2006.
Posted on 6:36 AM by susan
