MISTAKE MONDAY for May 28: Can YOU spot what’s wrong?
Can you spot what’s wrong in the image below? Please post your answer as a comment. Hint: reading this item out loud would probably help you find the big problem. I post these challenges to raise awareness of the importance of proofreading.
Improve your design skills with this book
Want to improve your design skills? Would you like to be able to look at something and have ideas about how to tweak its design? The Non-Designer’s Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice can help. 4 principles to improve your design skills I like how author Robin Williams tackles the four […]
MISTAKE MONDAY for May 21: Can YOU spot what’s wrong?
Can you spot what’s wrong in the image below? Please post your answer as a comment. Hint: spell-checking software might not catch this one. I post these challenges to raise awareness of the importance of proofreading.
MISTAKE MONDAY for May 14: Can YOU spot what’s wrong?
Can you spot what’s wrong in the image below? Please post your answer as a comment. This is an obvious mistake. I post these challenges to raise awareness of the importance of proofreading.
Getting things as right as you can with a BuzzFeed copyeditor
“Getting Things As Right As You Can” is the title of a chapter in A world without whom, a book by Emmy J. Favilla, BuzzFeed’s global copy chief. As the book’s title suggests, Favilla disagrees with strict grammarians, especially if the support rules that are at odds with how people actually use language today. For […]