Writing Skills Training and Resources
If your writing looks professional,
so do you.
Who We Are
From 1988 to 2019, Nancy taught writing and literature at Columbia College, serving for eight years as dean of the Division of Communication, Languages, and Literatures and for fifteen years as director of the writing-across-the-curriculum program.
What We Offer
Get It Write offers customized writing skills seminars as well as free access to articles on common grammar, mechanics, and usage issues.
Face-to-Face Seminars
We offer seminars ranging in length from one hour to several days and covering a wide range of writing-related issues: grammar, mechanics, usage, clarity, organization, focus, development, an economy of language, and audience awareness.
Online Courses
Visit the Get It Write Online Academy to learn about asynchronous online courses. Learn at your own pace from video lectures, content quizzes, practice exercises, and video reviews.
Articles
Several times a month, we publish short articles addressing common questions professionals have about writing and about English grammar, mechanics, and usage. Search the archive of past articles, and subscribe to have the latest content delivered to your inbox.
Additional Services
- Executive Resumes and Cover Letters
- Editing Projects
- In-House-Style Guides
Recent Articles
Beware the One-Word Misplaced Modifier
One important way that writers distinguish themselves as careful thinkers is by ensuring that every modifier they employ is placed as closely as possible to the word they intend to modify. Fuzzy placement implies fuzzy thinking. As you may recall from high school...
Names: Making Them Plural and NOT Possessive
Each year, as the festive season approaches and people make plans to send holiday greetings, many of us would benefit from a reminder about how to make last names plural. (Hint: Apostrophes need not apply.) If we pause to think, we will likely remember that...
Which, Who, and That: Singular or Plural?
Many of my posts include a quiz introduced by some form of the question “Which of the following sentences are problematic?” More than one subscriber has written to suggest that in this opening question, the plural verb are should instead be the singular verb is. That...