RESOURCES

These articles cover a wide range of topics and provide free tips for authors and editors. In addition, we’ve produced a number of series of articles. These are:

Articles

Bullets, Numbers and Lists: How Small Errors Have a Big Impact

Bulleted lists can make documents easier to read, but only if they're formatted correctly. Here are some tips to make sure your documents look their best.

The Editor–Author Relationship: Five Reasons Why Self-publishing Authors Need an Editor

Dick Margulis explains how self-publishing authors produce better books and increase their profits with the help of an editor.

Five Ways to Fail When Using Abbreviations and How to Avoid Them

Find out about some common mistakes when using abbreviations; and learn what you can do to make sure your documents are error-free.

How to Check Consistency of Spelling and Hyphenation for Free

To make your documents stand out from the crowd, learn about these common mistakes and an easy way to find them.

Think You’re Finished Editing? Five Things to Check Before You Press Print

Some simple steps that can save you from embarrassment after you've completed work on a document.

To Be Or Not To Be In Capitals: That Is The Question

Is confusion in the capitalization of titles caused by the verb 'to be', or are there other factors?

Why Editing Programs are Like Gardening: Looking Back at Two Years of Design Improvements

A guide to some of the changes we've made to PerfectIt since it launched.

Write a Style Guide: What You Need to Know

What it takes to produce a guide that will make a real difference to your organization and won't just gather dust.

The 10 Dumbest Mistakes Business Writers Make

A look at the worst mistakes that appear in technical reports and how to make sure that they don't happen in your documents.

Check Your Style Guide with PerfectIt

Learn how to fine-tune PerfectIt to enforce your style guide and find the mistakes that matter most.

Five Grammar Myths... And What You Should Do About Them

A look at five 'rules' that are not actually rules at all; but do they matter anyway?