Janice Harayda
Dec 19, 2021

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Do you mean Dreyer's Modern English? I like it, but you're right: It's not specific to journalism (it seems aimed at authors of books). So it doesn't deal with some nuts-and-bolts issues that are helpful to journalists: e.g., don't say "car accident," say "car crash," if the cause is undetermined, b/c "accident" can impute innocence to someone who may be guilty of, say, deliberately ramming a car into someone else.

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Janice Harayda
Janice Harayda

Written by Janice Harayda

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.

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