Jesús Romero-Trillo

Category: Society

  • The Latest Style

    On Monday we introduced a number of revisions and updates to the stylebook. After Deadline will highlight some of those changes over the next few weeks. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/the-latest-style/

  • New publication: Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics. Ed. by Kecskes, Istvan & Romero-Trillo, Jesús

    New publication: Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics. Ed. by Kecskes, Istvan & Romero-Trillo, Jesús

    Mouton de Gruyter 2013. Click this link for Table of Contents and other details

  • Red Pencils Ready?

    For this week’s roundup of grammar, style and other editing missteps, I turn once again to the popular After Deadline Quiz. Try to identify at least one problem in each of the passages. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/red-pencils-ready-9/

  • A million reasons to improve teacher quality (The Economist)

    A million reasons to improve teacher quality (The Economist)

    Education A million reasons to improve teacher quality Oct 16th 2013, 17:07 by R.A. | LONDON THIS week’s Free exchange column looks at a fascinating bit of statistical work on the value of a good teacher. Economists Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff obtained a massive data set from a large, urban school system, which covered 2.5m…

  • More Ugly Disagreements

    It’s been barely a month since my last litany of subject-verb agreement errors, but the file is overflowing once again. The topic is tedious, the errors exasperating. Readers notice and find it hard to understand why we make so many rather rudimentary mistakes. A good question. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/more-ugly-disagreements/

  • Close but Not Quite

    It’s commendable to add nuance or texture to our prose with a word that’s slightly out of the ordinary. Just be sure the word you pick is the right one, used the right way. It’s not enough to be in the general vicinity. And a misstep is all the more glaring if the word is…