It's always handy to have a resource or two on tap when it comes to improving your writing skills -  specifically: grammar, punctuation and general usage.

Tim North of Scribe Consulting has a regular "Better Writing Skills" Newsletter that could help you out... and he often responds to questions from subscribers.

Tim keeps back issues of newsletters on his site, so you can go along and see if the answer to your burning question is already there.

To whet your appetite, here's a partial list of what awaits you: 

• Free material on report writing, apostrophes and plain English

• Do place names always need a capital letter?

• Formatting a manuscript for publication

• When do we write numbers as words?

• Should I use single quotes or double quotes

• Another way to avoid saying "he or she"Ten tips for writing good sales copy

• Commas can be constantly confusing.

• When do plant and animal names need a capital?

For these tips and more - or to sign up for Tim's magazine - go to:

http://www.scribe.com.au/newsletter.html