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Editing, Do You Speak It
Jan. 11th, 2015 06:58 amWe all make mistkes. We all mahe tpoes. Well all leave out words a sentence accidentally.
For some reason though, article writers are missing a crucial step in the publishing process: LEARN TO PROOFREAD and EDIT, for crying out loud!
At least l33tspeak hasn't caught on in actual publications, or the awful telegraph* shortening of words now used in text messages (like 'u' and 'ur' in place of 'you' and 'your'/'you're'), but for some reason the voracity of online articles and speed at which these articles are being pushed out has created a phenomenon in which errors pop up in online articles like crazy. These are errors that a simple proofing or re-read should catch and correct.
This is a blog. This isn't a published article. I still proofread my entries, sometimes the next day when re-reading them and wondering to myself, "Did I really type that?" I have no reason to apologize when I make mistakes here, but that doesn't mean I care so little about my writing that I don't at least TRY to make some attempt to have it written out correctly. It just makes me wonder how much article writers actually care about their own writing.
*Back when telegraphs were the primary means of communicating long distance, people learned to be very brief, precise, and sometimes quite hilarious in their telegraph messages due to being charged by the word.
For some reason though, article writers are missing a crucial step in the publishing process: LEARN TO PROOFREAD and EDIT, for crying out loud!
At least l33tspeak hasn't caught on in actual publications, or the awful telegraph* shortening of words now used in text messages (like 'u' and 'ur' in place of 'you' and 'your'/'you're'), but for some reason the voracity of online articles and speed at which these articles are being pushed out has created a phenomenon in which errors pop up in online articles like crazy. These are errors that a simple proofing or re-read should catch and correct.
This is a blog. This isn't a published article. I still proofread my entries, sometimes the next day when re-reading them and wondering to myself, "Did I really type that?" I have no reason to apologize when I make mistakes here, but that doesn't mean I care so little about my writing that I don't at least TRY to make some attempt to have it written out correctly. It just makes me wonder how much article writers actually care about their own writing.
*Back when telegraphs were the primary means of communicating long distance, people learned to be very brief, precise, and sometimes quite hilarious in their telegraph messages due to being charged by the word.
