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Our Purpose

Get It Write offers services for people who realize that the written
word makes a powerful and lasting impression.

Get It Write offers customized writing skills seminars as well as free access to articles on common grammar, mechanics, and usage issues.

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.

Articles

We frequently publish articles about the most popular English grammar and writing questions that we receive as English educators. We cover grammar, mechanics, usage, punctuation, pronouns, and other popular topics.

Style Manuals

Get It Write can work with your organization to design a style manual specifically tailored to meet the unique needs of your business.

This course was precisely what I needed. I cannot recall a single issue we covered that will not be extremely helpful. I now realize how much help I need to be effective in my written communication

Fred Lancaster

National Account Manager, United Parcel Service.

Nancy (Tuten) makes what could be a dry subject very interesting. She works to make the content relevant. The course was excellent.

Samantha Williams

Director of Training and Development, S.C. Department of Public Safety

My entire office should enroll in this workshop. I wish I had taken it sooner. In the past, some of this information was difficult for me to understand, but not today.

Bonnie Ziegler

Personnel Services, S.C. Budget and Control Board Internal Operations

Latest Articles
Popular Articles

Which Craft: The Broad/Implied/VagueWhich

Communication is difficult enough under the best of circumstances, so we need to do everything possible to ensure that our writing is as clear and...

Nancy Tuten

7 February 2019

When to Capitalize People’s Titles and/or Positions

Can you identify problems with the capitalization of titles in any of the following sentences? The position of Comptroller for Acme Corporation is currently being...

Nancy Tuten

3 October 2018

One Space or Two after Periods?

Do you use one space or two after periods? Many people are surprisingly (even ridiculously) passionate about this issue. The Two-Space Camp Those who favor...

Nancy Tuten

28 September 2018

Making Verbs Agree with Neither, Either, and Each

Can you spot subject-verb problems in any of the following sentences? Each of the seventeen department heads are required to submit a year-end budget report....

Nancy Tuten

20 August 2018

Achieving Coherence in Writing: Transition Words and Phrases

Among the many tasks facing a writer, one of the most important is to provide transitions that explain how ideas in a text are related...

Nancy Tuten

9 July 2018

“The Reason Is Because” vs. “The Reason Is That”

One of our newsletter subscribers wrote to ask us which of the following constructions is correct: The reason we were late is because there was...

Nancy Tuten

3 June 2018

En Dashes and Em Dashes

A number of our readers have written to ask us to explain the difference between the hyphen, the em dash, and the en dash. Distinguishing...

Nancy Tuten

3 November 2015

Typing Characters That Don’t Appear on the Keyboard

One of the many advantages personal computers have over typewriters is that we can type a whole host of useful characters that are not visible...

Nancy Tuten

3 December 2015

To Lie or To Lay?

The verbs to lie and to lay have very different meanings. Simply put, to lie means “to rest,” “to assume or be situated in a horizontal position,” and to lay means “to put...

Nancy Tuten

3 October 2015

Starting Sentences with And or But

One of our readers wrote to ask if she could ever start a sentence with the word but. The answer is yes. The word but...

Nancy Tuten

3 September 2015

Which or That?

While both which and that can be used in other constructions, the confusion usually arises when they are being used as relative pronouns to introduce adjective (or relative) clauses....

Nancy Tuten

3 August 2015

Compound Words: When to Hyphenate

A compound word is a combination of two or more words that function as a single unit of meaning. There are three types of compounds:...

Nancy Tuten

3 July 2015

About The Instructor

Nancy founded Get It Write in 1991. Since then, she has taught hundreds of writing seminars on writing-related issues to professionals in the workforce, including employees of state and local governments, judges and staff members of state and federal court systems, bankers, and attorneys (see her client list).

She is a tenured professor of English at Columbia College, where she served as head of the Division of Communication, Languages, and Literatures for eight years and director of the writing-across-the-curriculum program for fifteen years.