A rose by any other name…
When we’re learning how to write in high school and college, we’re taught that synonyms make our writing more exciting. In fact, not using synonyms can make our prose clumsy and awkward.
When it comes to re…

Another point for writing in a specific gender – if you use “their” instead of “his” or “hers” you introduce an ambiguity of cardinality. Are you talking about something in the plural, or the singular.

• “The topics of his stories must be cross-referenced.”
• “The topics of their stories must be cross-referenced.”

In the first example, the requirement is unambiguous that the stories written by a single author must be cross-referenced. In the second example wording, it isn’t clear if all stories from all authors should be cross-referenced with stories from other authors, or just with stories from the same author.

The one thing in that list above that I wish everyone would adhere to was writing in the positive.