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The Elements of Style
Joining ranks with a grand old institution like The Wall Street Journal has a number of little benefits that are secondary—but as savory—as actually writing for the publication. His own institution at the Journal, Paul Martin has been publishing “Style & Substance” since 1987. It’s the monthly style, grammar, and usage bulletin of the Journal. As much as those famous stippled hedcut drawings, the Journal’s style guide gives the paper its consistent, irreproducible elegance. Paul’s style bulletins are a joy to read because, like the articles written according to his rules, they are clever, incisive, and funny.
Paul’s bulletins are not just emailed out to Journal employees; they are posted publicly on WSJ.com. You too can rejoice in the lingual discipline of “Style & Substance” here.
Read the latest, and you will be pleased to learn that the Journal will not be accepting the prevailing colloquial use of the verb “to suck” any time soon.
UPDATE: Perhaps you are curious about The New York Times’s style guide. The organization does not to my knowledge make its style or its bulletins public, but that is all right because in fact the Times’s style book is only one page long and contains only one rule: all prepositions, adverbs and articles are in all instances to be replaced by the phrase “Christian conservatives.”
Also, to conform to Times style, the writer is to sneer at the poor wayward world as he types it.
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October 18, 2009
When Love Beckoned in 52nd Street
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October 9, 2009
D Afraid of a Little Competish
So our colleague and Dartblog writer Joe Asch informed me that the D has rejected our cunning advertising campaign. Uh-oh. The Dartmouth is widely known as a breeding ground for instant New York Times successes,… -
September 4, 2009
How Regents Should Reign
As Dartmouth alumni proceed through the legal hoops necessary to defuse a Board-packing plan—which put in unhappy desuetude an historic 1891 Agreement between alumni and the College guaranteeing a half-democratically-elected Board of Trustees—it strikes one… -
August 29, 2009
Election Reform Study Committee
If you are an alum of the College on the Hill, you may have received a number of e-mails of late beseeching your input for a new arm of the College’s Alumni Control Apparatus called… -
August 23, 2009
Fare Thee Well, Tom Crady
And now Dean Tom Crady has precipitously announced his departure from the College after only 20 months on the job. How to read this? By way of background, prior to coming to Dartmouth, Crady had… -
May 31, 2009
Kangaroo Court, Indeed
In an interview with The Dartmouth, alumni-elected trustee T.J. Rodgers ‘70 explained his reasons for declining to participate in future evaluations of trustees up for “re-election,” namely the “kangaroo court” nature of such discussion in…