If you attended classes at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno any time from the '80s to the spring of 2011 it's likely you took a class from journalism professor Jake Highton. And once you took a class from Jake Highton, you became part of an unofficial club. The club was made up of stressed-out students comparing equally bad grades. The amount of his hastily-penned -- perhaps even violently-scratched -- red-ink corrections caused almost everyone...

Do you constantly have to grab for the AP Stylebook throughout your work day? Is it "lay" or is it "lie"? Should I use "affect" or "effect"? What about “who” vs. “whom”? My go-to resource has become Mignon Fogarty — better known as "Grammar Girl" — of QuickandDirtyTips.com. Her website and podcast provide — well just what you'd think: quick and dirty tips to an ever-growing number of topics such as: "Did I Tweet or did I Twitter?" "Funny Misplaced Modifiers" and "Do you capitalize 'Google'?" Luckily,...