Would you publish a Web page
    knowing it had errors in it?

    I did.

     

    Read through the three paragraphs below and see how many errors you can spot.
    (Multiple occurrences of the same error count as only one.)

     

    34 grammer, usage & style errors--maybe more--appear in these 3 paragraphs. Each of these intentionally-placed errors were selected with regards to how common they appear, even in high end materials. The rise of software spelling & grammer tools in the 1990's has much to do with that.

    The client may have no idea how weak their writing may be. Advertising & design firms, generally more orientated towards visual content, often aren't set-up to insure the written integrity of the pieces they produce. Project Managers may not miss not having a real writer on the project till someone that can write points out how much better it's quality could--or should--have been. This can make a Project Manager and/or a agency look and feel badly.

    I work with ad firms & communications departments which realize the ability to string words together does not make one a writer. While on the surface, this particular self-promo piece focuses upon grammer, I simply can't over-emphasize what I can do for you in writing headlines, body copy & editorial matter. (I also happen to know a thing or two about marketing, too). Call me & see. Thank-you for your interest.

     

    If you found more than three errors you did better than Microsoft’s spell checker did (at least the version when this was created in about 1999. Another curious thing is that the original document had two spaces after every period, which was intended to be another set of errors. But when I pasted the text from Word into Dreamweaver, the spaces went away and it refused to let me put them back in. Hmmmm.

    Care to see a marked up version (link to a Word document with changes tracked and marked)?

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