See anything wrong with that title? Maybe the grammatical errors that were all throughout it? You didn’t notice? Then this is the refresh for you! 

In On Writing Well, author William Zinsser writes an entire chapter on the importance of grammar in writing. Beyond having the article or piece of content readable for the audience, Zinsser explains the importance of using grammar to enhance your writing while stressing the importance of not losing your voice or message because of technical writing. But first we have understand or better yet, refresh ourselves on grammar as a whole.

Verbs: words used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

Example: Buy – I am buying a gift for my mom.

Adverbs: a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. 

Example: Softly – the boy walked softly down the hall. 

Adjectives: a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.

Example: Dazzling- Wendy’s engagement ring was dazzling!

Nouns: a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things (common noun), or to name a particular one of these (proper noun).

Example: School – My father works in a school. 

And last but certainly not least, 

Punctuation: the marks, such as period, comma, and parentheses, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning

Example: (!) – I can’t believe he said that about her!

Not to negate Zinsser’s ideas about the importance of grammar when it comes to conveying your message and developing your voice as a writer, but it is also important to remember its proper technical use in writing.

Sources:

Zinsser, William K. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. HarperCollins, 2006.