When Grammar Meets Feelings: Choosing Bad or Badly
Learn when to use an adjective and when to use an adverb with the verb to feel Read More
Posts Authored by Susan Doose
Susan Doose is an associate editor at the MLA. She received her PhD in German studies from Rutgers University, where her dissertation focused on the function of framing devices in German realist literature. Before coming to the MLA, she worked as a freelance copyeditor, translator, and German-language teacher.
Giving Thanks
An MLA editor outlines different ways of giving thanks and acknowledging sources in academic writing Read More
On Witches and Whiches: A Guide to Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses
Celebrate the spookiest day of the year with this post on restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses Read More
The Limits of Fidelity: What to Reproduce (and What Not to Reproduce) in a Quotation
An MLA editor gives examples of typography that should and should not be reproduced in a quotation Read More
Celebrating the Oscars—the MLA Way
Learn how to cite the ten films of 2022 nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture Read More
Cleft Sentences; or, How to Foreground Frightening Felines
Learn about the construction and use of cleft sentences Read More
On Editing Your Own Writing: Some Advice
Editing your own writing can be challenging, but it's not impossible Read More
A Closer Look at MLA Style
An MLA editor offers a glimpse of some of the finer points of MLA style Read More
Rivers and Ladders and Bad Breaks, Oh My!
Checking page proofs involves identifying problems introduced in the typesetting process Read More
To Dangle or Not to Dangle: On Ending a Sentence with a Preposition
Somewhere along the line, I was taught not to dangle my prepositions Read More