Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.