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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “proofreading”

 

• Would that be the 1920s?

  
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  Keeping up with the times and spotting fashion trends? That’s not exactly what the editors at Yahoo! Shine are doing right now. They’re nearly a century late with advice on how to dress for work in the 1920s: That’s pretty much the dumbest use of an apostrophe that I’ve ever seen. The apostrophe ...
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• What else is wrong?

  
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  I knew something was wrong when I read this on Yahoo! News ‘ “The Sideshow”: Having lived in Massachusetts, I knew all station call letters in that state begin with a W. So where is KCPQ? It’s in Tacoma, Washington. And it’s a Fox affiliate, not a CNN affiliate. So, how much of the rest of the article ...
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• Kennedy, Unhinged

  
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  If you shut your eyes for just a moment while reading this latest HuffPo piece by Robert Kennedy, Jr., you can almost hear the gobs of spittle smacking his monitor as he wrote. There’s really nothing like the pungent aroma of blue blood at full boil. As you may recall, Kennedy is an attorney, activist and Senior ...
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• Phillip Garrido? No

  
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  Proving that they are equal opportunity when it comes to misspelling names, the writers at Yahoo! Shine come up with an unusual spelling of Phillip Garrido’s name: Filed under: Misspellings Tagged: bad spelling , editing , incorrect spelling , misspelled celebrities , misspelling , Phillip garrido , ...
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• 10 Tips For Proofreading Your Manuscript

  
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  This is a wonderful, must-read, article for anyone who has had trouble proofreading their own work: 10 Proofreading Tips For Self-Publishers . Anna Lewis writes: No matter how many times you’ve read through your work, it’s amazing how often errors can sneak through to the final stages. The problem: You’re so ...
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• Well. They do sound the same.No, our Walgreens does not sell...

  
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  Well. They do sound the same. No, our Walgreens does not sell soy sauce or eucalyptus oil. But, yes, apparently you can purchase a person with poor bladder control. So.
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• So, it’s really NOT Abercrombie & Fitch?

  
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  Do the editors for Yahoo! Shine know something we don’t? Is Abercrombie & Fitch really not the name of the apparel store? Those little quotation marks really threw me. Maybe they indicate that the caption refers to a movie or a book or a TV show, and not a store. Or maybe I’ve been wrong all these years. ...
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• That’s no way to refer to the first lady

  
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  Showing a definite lack of respect for the wife of the president, the writer for Yahoo! Shine misspells Michelle Obama’s name: Filed under: Misspellings Tagged: bad spelling , editing , incorrect spelling , Michelle Obama , misspelled celebrities , misspelling , proofreading , Shine , spelling , ...
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• Typo Tips

  
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  It happens to all of us. You think you just crafted the perfect tweet or status, you send it off into the vast space called the Internet and then you re-read it; you made a typo!  My last major typo was about a month ago, while sharing a blog post on Facebook about a controversial topic - and my mistake was ...
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• How many principals are there?

  
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  As far as I know, schools have only one principal. If that’s true, why did the writer for Yahoo! Shine imply that a school in Virginia has more than one principal? I guess if there are two principals, and they sit in the principals’ office, one of them must be the principal principal. Filed under: ...
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• Tired of writing in English?

  
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  Sometimes, when I’m writing photo captions for Yahoo! News ‘ “The Lookout” I get really, really bored. So just for fun I’ll start writing in English and then switch to la française. N’est-ce pas drôle? Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: editing , French , funny writing errors , funny writing ...
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• Wrong, but consistent

  
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  If you can’t be right, at least be consistent. That seems to be the philosophy over at Yahoo! Movies , where the “experts” in cinema can’t spell “Inside Llewyn Davis” in a caption here: Or in the headline for a related article: The writers and editors may be wrong, but at least they’re ...
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• Orajel: What’s it really called?

  
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  The oral gel that you thought was called Orajel is really called something else. At least that’s what these quotation marks on Yahoo! News implies: Filed under: Punctuation , Quotation Marks Tagged: editing , incorrect punctuation , misplaced quotation mark , proofreading , Punctuation , punctuation ...
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• Edit and Proofread Your Way to Blogging Success

  
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  Editing and proofreading your blog will help you get your message out clearly. Blogs have become popular outlets for getting ideas and thoughts into the public sector. Blogs are used for instruction, advice, marketing, and creative endeavors. There are a number of easy ways to create a blog, but no matter what ...
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• Why would you read any more?

  
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  This is the first paragraph of an article from Yahoo! News ‘ “The Lookout”: Why would anyone bother to read any more? Filed under: Unnecessary Words , Wrong words Tagged: editing , extra word , proofreading , The Look , typo , typos , unnecessary word , writing , wrong word , Yahoo! , ...
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• The principal writing principle

  
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  The principal (or most important) principle (or basic rule) of writing is to know something about the language you’re writing in. The writer for Yahoo! Shine illustrates one possible outcome if you dare to violate that principle: Filed under: Confused Words , principal/principle Tagged: Commonly confused ...
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• Freelance Writing Jobs for May 8, 2013

  
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  Every time I hear of the experiences of people commuting to their offices daily, gratitude fills me – gratitude for the opportunity to make a living doing what I love without having to go out of the house. What are you most thankful for about freelance writing? Freelance Writing Jobs Content Writing Jobs ...
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• Random Wednesday

  
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    Hello everyone: Let’s have some fun! We’ll just call this Random Wednesday! Me, trying to get caught up on my reading: When someone says, “irregardless.” And then you try to let them know, but they keep using it: When I’m having a hard time writing/editing: When I see that … The post Random Wednesday ...
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• Phoningitin

  
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  Is this what happens when a “journalist” uses a cell phone to write an article? Does it always result in missing spaces, grammatical errors, and typos? Or are these errors unique to Yahoo! News ‘ “The Lookout”? Filed under: Verbs Tagged: bad grammar , editing , incorrect grammar , Jeff Stacklin ...
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• 500 word average articles by ritastrang

  
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  I am looking for writers to complete many articles over a few weeks. Please bid according to how many 500 word articles that you could complete in one week. Paying $2.00 per article I ALSO NEED... (Budget: $30-$250 USD, Jobs: Article Rewriting, Articles, Blog, Ghostwriting, Proofreading)
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