Mistakes. Mistakes. Mistakes. We all make them, even when we think we have proofread our documents.
Some mistakes are worse than others:
Written: The rent will be $200 per month. Intended: The rent increase will be $200 per month.
Written: You have a credit of $2,500. Intended: You have...
Never accept a grammar- and spell-check as foolproof.
Last week I was once again reminded of the limits of proofreading software. In a business writing class, participants were sharing the documents they had just written, when we discovered these grammar- and spell-check misses:
"between you and I" (change...
Question: What do "human begins" and "human beings" have in common?
Answer: Spell-check accepts both of them.
So in a recent post, I talked about the importance of writing as human begins. Hmmm, that could be fascinating! Perhaps on stone tablets?
However, since I intended "writing as human beings," I...
