Month: September 2022

In many college English classes, students are asked to use ethos in their writing and/or to analyze another author’s use of ethos through a rhetorical analysis. Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher who studied the art of effective communication (also called “rhetoric”), found that effective persuasion comes down to the use of three specific rhetorical appeals:…

The apostrophe is an extremely useful punctuation mark, but many writers don’t understand how to use apostrophes correctly. This blog post will go over the basics of apostrophe use, specific apostrophe rules, and common apostrophe errors. Apostrophes have two primary functions: 1) to form contractions / to show the omission of letters or numbers, and…