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Celebrity beckons. At least I think that's beckoning.
on Apr 26, 2007 in Higher education quality assurance notoriety fame politics proofreading Well, one blog and suddenly the mass media descends. Knew I should have tried this before!Perhaps not quite. The reality is that one of the research papers from the project I work for, the briefing paper on degree classification, has been picked up b...
Announcement and Third Party Musings
on Jun 24, 2007 in Proofreading Writing Editing Republican Superman Super Super Man Democrat Third Party Technical Writing Technical WritingSuper ManIntroducingTechnical Editing/WritingI wanted to take a moment to introduce my two agencies offering services. The first is, of course, my technical writing firm. I have not built the Website yet, but basically I am offering...
Proofreader Anyone??
on Aug 14, 2007 in rant foot locker editing proofreading I am notorious for scanning the freelance ads for various companies on a couple different sites. Today I came across an ad for a national chain seeking a proofreader. In about twenty minutes, I tore their ad apart and sent it back to them for their...
Nominalization - When Verbs Go Bad
on Nov 4, 2007 in usage errors usage error edit article writing editing article proofread writing proofreading The great thing about verbs is that they are interesting. Verbs supply most of the life to your writing. Nouns, on the other hand, are rather stoical creatures. However, many authors effort to do their authorship look more than professional by cha...
A Publisher/Editor's Pet Peeves
on Jan 13, 2008 in grammar writing technique editing copyediting style proofreading As an editor and publisher, I have pet peeves just like anyone else, and most of those involve formatting. I can generally adjust to an author's style quirks, and misspellings and grammatical errors are the copy editor's problem, not mine. However, I...