Preachy blog posts, smug tweets, and groaning students all share in their disdain for the semicolon. Why? Because it’s hard to use. And it’s harder still to understand the mark’s purpose. The…
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Dangling modifiers and the comedy of grammatical errors
Given the complexity of language, it’s impossible to score one hundred on the test. Wires…
A remote worker walks into a full office…
This summer, Leff colleagues from around the world convened at the office in Chicago for…
It’s cucumber time! Why the Silly Season is so important
Rocked as we are with news of war, gun violence, inflation, inequality, wildfires, heatwaves, and…
The Leff blog starter pack: Our most-read posts of all time
Leff has been at this content marketing racket for more than a decade now. In…
Shining a light on humane farming through video
Eating meat can mean navigating some pretty difficult truths. Conventional livestock farming in the United…
Why I still take on editing projects
My colleague Annie was recently on a kickoff call with an author we’d worked with…