In Lou Johnson’s satirical social commentary, ?#@*&%!! Some Things Really Were Better in the 1950s, he describes reality as he sees it in the twenty-first century—the bad, the worse, and the incredibly […]

We compare things every day and are constantly expressing our opinions about one thing or another. One way we do this is with the words different from and different than. To make your writing clear, […]

A pronoun allows the writer to make a reference to something without using the name each time. Pronouns replace one or more nouns in a sentence. For example, instead of using the nouns Amy, the bookcase, […]

Great leaders make the difference between mediocrity and excellence. For decades, MDA Leadership Consulting has worked with thousands of leaders around the globe in an effort to help organizations build a […]

Dialogue is one of the trickiest elements of writing. The ability to capture on the page the natural flow of speech and conversation is a skill that comes naturally to some writers and evades others. But never […]