copy editing

These little symbols might seem small, but they carry with them centuries of history and some pretty big personalities. Which punctuation marks hold a special place in your heart?

We should keep in mind the great advantages that the internet has given us, but not forget the importance of print papers to the journalism industry.

It was a Wednesday night in 2006, and in Ms. Weingarden’s third-grade class, Wednesday nights were reading nights. In my family, these were tense at best.

I think if I am a grammar symbol, I am the most humble one: the hyphen.

Ostensibly, the clock was a piece of plastic hardware that tracked the seconds, minutes and hours of the day, but my teacher made it count for so much more.

In a dark corner of the Daily Cal office, a copy editor is dreaming ...

While I’m not suggesting that you get drunk to write all of your essays, the research I’ve done on this topic seems to show that it’s not such a bad idea.

Often kids like me are made to feel embarrassed about their differences, and smart kids with unique abilities can fall through the cracks if they don’t communicate in the expected manner.

Our audible solo conversations showcase our instinctive “voice” — not the one we’ve been trained to have, not the one we learned to sound erudite-but-approachable-and-definitely-super-unique-and-memorable for cover letters and college applications, but the ones that structure and articulate our most natural selves.