Thursday, March 5, 2009

Copy Edit the World #2

This one is from Cases in Communication Law by Zelezny. "Hays" is actually supposed to be "Hayes."




This is from Mass Media Law, by Pember. "Nonconfidential" should be "Non-confidential," according to the AP style book.





The bottom of the 1st picture and the top of the second picture: "Names not commonly before the public not should not be reduced to acronyms solely to save a few words."
It should say "Names not commonly known before the public..."




On Prof. McCune’s blog Mike commented:

“Just passing by.Btw, you website have great content!”

The main correction is to change “you website have great content” to “your website has great content”

If you want to be picky, there needs to be a space between “by.” and “Btw”

And if you want to be even more picky, spell btw out as “by the way,” but this is a casual comment on the internet, so “btw” seems acceptable.

1 comment:

  1. Good catches! That's 4+4=8 points for the first two.

    The next one doesn't quite work for me. The sentence is awkward, but "Names not commonly known before the public" doesn't work very well either.

    Lots of errors in that comment (probably a spammer anyway) -- How about: "Your website has great content"? But I'll give you 2 points for the ones you spotted.

    Total: 10 points

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