Hit the Bestseller List: How to Style Your Words Like a Bestselling Author

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Hit the Bestseller List: How to Style Your Words Like a Bestselling Author In The Bestseller Code, Jodie Archer and Matthew Jockers, who have backgrounds in publishing and text-mining, worked together to create an algorithm that aims to identify novels that will become bestsellers. Each chapter of the book cracks open a bit more of the code ...Read More 09/29/2016 11:45pm View           Syllable Acronyms: Why HoCo Means Homecoming Fall is finally here, and here in the United States, September or October are when many of the nation’s high schools have their homecoming tradition. For those of you who don’t live in the United States or Canada, homecoming is a week during which a school’s former students come back for a visit, and it usually features a football game, a dance ...Read More 09/29/2016 3:45pm View           Canceled or Cancelled? Every winter, you probably see the word canceled a lot—or should it be spelled cancelled? Canceled is more common in American English, and cancelled is more common in British English, but these aren't hard-and-fast rules...Read More 09/29/2016 12:03pm View               FROM QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS Get More Grammar Girl Visit the website. Subscribe to the Grammar Girl podcast at iTunes or via RSS. Find Grammar Girl books, gear, and more at the Quick and Dirty Tips store. Have Questions? Search the Quick and Dirty Tips website. We have more than 600 articles about grammar and language. There's a good chance your question has already been covered.                 Best wishes, (and the Quick and Dirty Tips Team)                 Want more tips? If this was forwarded to you by a friend and you'd like to receive future tips, you can sign up here. Please don't use the subscribe/unsubscribe link at the bottom of the page because this will overwrite your friend's subscription. (If this came directly to you, you can use the subscribe/unsubscribe link below to manage your subscription.)                 FOLLOW ME

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