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Stickler or helper?

3/27/2015

2 Comments

 
EditMob is not a stickler.  I very rarely receive a submission for an arcane rule of grammar (though I am not opposed to it).  One of the more interesting aspects of monitoring your submissions is the quality (and quantity) of the reports.  Less than 5% of the reports are rejected.  I would attribute nearly all of those to style decisions by the author and a few to British/Canadian spelling.

I was reading a blog entry by Carol Saller (who I just realized is the editor for the Chicago Manual of Style online forum) and then engaged her in a quick email exchange.  As most people point out, she noted that EditMob is a great outlet for those of you who want to do good; but she also rejected that EditMob is a stickler.  Whew.

I often get comments from authors that feel all their readers should be focused on the content, rather than typos.  To them I respond, yes but ... don't you want the cleanest read for everyone else.

Those that agree sign up.  Thanks.

-dave
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Mary Norris, The New Yorker, and a quiz.

3/21/2015

5 Comments

 
I have always been in awe of The New Yorker. I have never come across an error in their print or online edition and wondered how they do it. Finally! A peek inside in this entertaining article by Mary Norris, "Holy Writ." I look forward to her book, “Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen,” which will come out this spring.

Here's a link to the article:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/holy-writ

And here is a pop-quiz for my fellow MobEditors:

In the above, we have a magazine title, magazine article and book title. What would you use and where - italics, quotation marks, underline, other?

*Note:  I've left the formatting out as an exercise for the reader.

- Rita Porter
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The value of credibility and how EditMob can help

3/3/2015

1 Comment

 
The presentation below by B.J. Fogg of Stanford University ranks how typos affect credibility.  It also shows that over the course of the study, typos became more deleterious AND that typos scored worse that pop-up ads (boy I hate those).  Two slides (24 and 31) comment directly on the negative aspects of typos.
Web Credibility - BJ Fogg - Stanford University from BJ Fogg
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