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We discuss spelling errors and how to avoid them.
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Do people in general care if they misspell a word? > Cartoon Professor
Do people in general care if they misspell a word? I don't think they do. In my experience they chuckle and say, "Is that spelled right?" And then they move on without checking. In my years as a jour…
Started by Cartoon Professor Sep 8.
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Comment by Cartoon Professor on September 29, 2009 at 8:41am - Me again. I remember writing for an editor who was always emphasizing the importance of fact-checking. And he often concluded by pointing out that correct spelling was the fact most easily checked -- by simply looking in a dictionary.
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Comment by Cartoon Professor on September 29, 2009 at 8:33am
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Comment by Cartoon Professor on September 29, 2009 at 8:25am
- Seeing (this morning) my forum titled "Do people care if they misspell a word?" I'm reminded of writing courses I taught at the Univ. of Missouri School of Journalism. Although some of my students were professional journalists, on leave, and others would soon be journalists or magazine writers, I found that many of them regarded spelling as something to be corrected by their editors, whose primary jobs were to improve their articles, by tightening, restructuring, etc. Some of these writers would say to me something like "I hope I haven't misspelled too many words." And if the had, I would simply lower their grade.
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