Ellen Jovin

ELLEN JOVIN is an internationally acclaimed grammar and language expert. She has written three other books on writing and grammar: English At Work: Find and Fix Your Mistakes in Business English; Essential Grammar for Business: The Foundation of Good Writing; and Writing for Business: Professionalism, Integrity & Power. Ellen has achieved fluency in six languages and has studied more than 25 in nine different writing systems for fun. She is a co-founder of Syntaxis, a communication skills training firm whose clients include many multinational corporations. Earlier in her career, Ellen taught English as an adjunct lecturer at New York University and other colleges, and then spent several years as a full-time freelance writer. Ellen has a B.A. in German studies from Harvard University and an M.A. in comparative literature from UCLA.