Chicago Style Workout 42: Chicago vs. AP
Some editors spend most of their time following a single style. But many of us, especially if we freelance, are required to know more than one.
Chicago Style Workout 41: Prefixes
This month’s Chicago style workout focuses on the fourth and last section of our hyphenation table, “Words Formed with Prefixes.”
What Does an Editor Know? A Quiz
To celebrate the end of another decade, we’ve put together eleven questions designed to test your knowledge of some random editorial facts.
Chicago Style Workout 40: Grammar, Part 4
This month’s Chicago style workout, “Grammar, Part 4,” focuses on paragraphs 5.39–51 of CMOS 17, which cover personal pronouns, including their possessive and reflexive forms.
Chicago Style Workout 39: Word Usage, Part 9
This month’s workout, “Word Usage, Part 9,” finishes our run through the “Glossary of Problematic Words and Phrases” in section 5.250 of CMOS 17. For our usage finale, we’re focusing on words beginning with the letters t as in “that” through w as in “whomever.”
Chicago Style Workout 38: Word Usage, Part 8
This month’s workout, “Word Usage, Part 8,” returns to our “Glossary of Problematic Words and Phrases” in section 5.250 of CMOS 17. This time we’re focusing on words beginning with the letters r as in “rack” through s as in “straight.”
Chicago Style Workout 34: Editing and Proofreading Quiz No. 2
It’s time for another editing and proofreading quiz! This is the second in a series of workouts that will apply your editing knowledge and proofreading skills to Chicago style.
Where Are You on Our Grammar-Stickler Sliding Scale?
On a scale of 1 to 10, can you guess how big a stickler you are? (Your friends and colleagues probably can.) Just for fun, measure your peeving profile with this quiz.
Chicago Style Workout 32:
Grammar, Part 3
Pronouns are small but powerful words that often trip us up. This month’s Chicago style workout, “Grammar, Part 3,” centers on paragraphs 5.27–37 in CMOS 17, which cover the definitions and uses of pronouns.
Chicago Style Workout 31:
Word Usage, Part 5
This month’s workout, “Word Usage, Part 5,” centers on the usage list under paragraph 5.250 in CMOS 17. Today we focus on words beginning with the letters i through k. Writing and editing are more efficient when you never have to look up imply and infer or dither over “in regards to.”
