A Grammatical PSA

Are you in seminary? Starting grad school this fall? If so, here are some hints to make your professors more happier as they grade your papers:

• Avoid the subjunctive mood.
• Avoid the passive voice.
• Don’t use “scare quotes.”
• Punctuation goes inside of quote marks. See above.
• Book titles are italicized, not underlined or in quote marks.
• Always use a serif font.
• Always use the Oxford Comma.
• Only a single space between sentences. Unless you’re using a typewriter. Which you aren’t.
• Don’t capitalize words that are not proper nouns.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming. 🙂