Washington Post copy editor leads crash course on common grammar errors

Bill Walsh, copy editor at The Washington Post, will lead a National Press Club Journalism Institute session titled “The Stuff Your Editor Is Going to Change” from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Friday, March 6, in the Bloomberg Room.

Walsh will offer a crash course in the most common grammar, usage, punctuation, capitalization and logic errors in journalists' writing.

Click here to register. Registration is $5 for NPC members, $10 for non-members. Club members should log in for the promo code.

Walsh is the author of "Lapsing Into a Comma, The Elephants of Style" and "Yes, I Could Care Less." A 1984 graduate of the University of Arizona, he worked at The Phoenix Gazette and The Washington Times before joining the Post in 1997. He has run a Web site for editors, theslot.com, since 1995 and offers language commentary on Twitter as @TheSlot.