Daniel Brent Patton

Product Content Strategy & UX Writing

“Chicago” is 15!

Now featuring coverage of electronic publishing as well as a grammar and usage chapter all its own, the Chicago Manual of Style is in its 15th edition. Buy it. Read it. Mind the gaps. Perhaps most importantly, remember to (as Linda Halvorson, chief editor, puts it)...

On Rhetoric and Conversation

I read recently about the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy and about other dos and don’ts of debating at Truth Tree, a site offering its share of left-leaning positions in a series of essays,and message boards for each for readers to submit their responses. Not...