Editing/Proofreading
Lifting Corporate Fingerprints from the Editing of Wikipedia
Friday, August 8th, 2008 Last year a Wikipedia visitor edited the entry for the SeaWorld theme parks to change all mentions of “orcas” to “killer whales,” insisting that this was a more accurate name for the species.
There was another, unexplained edit: a paragraph about criticism of SeaWorld’s “lack of respect toward its orcas” disappeared. Both changes, it turns […]
At the End of the Day, These Words Don’t Work
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Stephen Shivinsky of Farmington Hills writes: "Your recent column on the word ‘utilize’ inspired me to share a list of banned words and phrases I have compiled for my staff.
As the corporate communications staff, we are writing and editing every day, including senior-management memos and presentations.
Inevitably, one or more of the following appear, and we […]
Five Easy Steps to Editing Your Own Work
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008In a perfect world, you’d never have to edit your own work, but well, you know the drill. The world’s not perfect, life’s not fair, yada yada. So spend a little time now or a lot of time later trying to convince your boss to let you keep your job.
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The ABCs of Editing
Friday, July 4th, 2008Editing is . . .
spelling
capitalization
punctuation
grammar
sentence structure
subject/verb agreement […]
Three Easy Steps to Cut the Fat in Business Writing
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Do people often misread or misunderstand your writing? You may be obscuring perfectly good ideas in useless words. These three easy steps can help you cut the fat from your writing.
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Business Documents Contain Too Many Errors
Thursday, April 24th, 2008The findings are based on WhiteSmoke’s survey of 5,000 pages of documents. "The most prevalent error type has turned out to be missing words, . . .
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See Who’s Editing Wikipedia — Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
Monday, August 20th, 2007Inspired by news last year that Congress members’ offices had been editing their own entries, Griffith says he got curious, and wanted to know whether big companies were doing the same. Guess what?
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