Minding or Bending Rules

 Q: What’s your position on ending a sentence with a preposition,  grammar others might be afraid of? What non-grammatical writing styles do you firmly support?

 

-       from Susan

 

As a former writer of academically-oriented texts (not a scholar), I worked in the language that represented literate administrations, their presidents, and higher ed institutions in general. The language had to have a certain tone, cadence, and rhythm. Frequently, I was tasked with making the case for something that m...