If you’re reading this, you probably read a lot. You’ve made your way through all our industry news, keeping tabs on trends in our feature stories and gleaning a greater understanding of your own business—at least we hope so.

And if you read this much, it may be that you do a fair amount of writing yourself. ChatGPT notwithstanding, people still must write to communicate.

But every once in a while, in the midst of a long day of editing, I’ll look skyward and then scratch a whole phrase or paragraph from a manuscript. Usually it’s because it’s the umpteenth time I’ve seen it in the several articles we prepare for a single issue of Quality Digest.

Not that I’m complaining. Bad writing provides editors a certain degree of job security (though perhaps now to a lesser degree with the advent of artificial intelligence, which will eventually write the stuff and read it, too).

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