Tag: words
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Six Guidelines to Improve and Safeguard your Writing — Part II
Before taking up the last two guidelines, let me quickly review the first four: (1) Avoid absolute words like always, never, everyone, and impossible. (2) Consider the people, the audience, who will read your composition. (3) Clarify words, especially acronyms, that may be unknown to your readers or that may carry different meanings for different…
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When No Words Are Needed
When she was about six or seven years old, my daughter Rachel needed her tonsils removed. Her mother and I took her to Columbus Children’s Hospital (now Nationwide Children’s Hospital) for the surgery and the overnight stay that followed. Not long after Rachel had been taken to her room, I went back to our car…
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Stand by Your Words!
We’ve all seen it – a car taking up two parking spaces. Usually, if other spots are available, it does little harm, but there can be exceptions. One such exception occurred several years ago, when I was going to a doctor’s appointment at Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center. I was in one of those indoor…
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Suppose Words Had a War with Numbers?
My late father was a mathematics whiz. As a member of the Army Air Corps during World War II, he earned the highest score in his navigators’ class. As a father, he did his best to help me get through Algebra I, and later, as a grandfather, he used geometry to do any number of…