Monday, March 23, 2009

In the third paragraph the writer wrote, "Although this was costly, the Redbirds scored only five points." But the writer failed to tell how it was costly. Did the team lose the lead, or close the lead? Oh the confusion.
In the first column there needs to be a comma between "shots" and "and".
In the second column, the head coach has already been introduced as such, so there is no need to repeat the title over and over again. The second mistake in the second column is a lack of punctuation. There needs to be a comma between "same" and "shooting."
The last mistake, in the third column, is a spelling error. The sentence reads "We were hitting 3s becuase of our other play," it should be "plays."
The writer mixed tenses here. Bad writer.
The sentence in the brackets is awkward. Also, for both sentences, why are they not in quotes? 
Here the writer changed who they were addressing. At first it sounds like  they were writing a summary of what happened, but as the article moves on they start to address the reader. 
This is a rather awkward sentence structure. It is complicated to begin with, but I think the writer wanted to be a little more artistic, which I get. But, it didn't work. If anything this sentence should read "Heather Freedman has long loved blah blah blah..."

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Everyone needs a good editor


Hilary Clinton gave a speech early in January. Her copy editors apparently took the day off.



Again, on Paste, I found this little gem. There is a comma where there should be a period. Or, a capital "T" where there should be a small one. I pick the latter of the two.

This was a caption under a picture for "High Fidelity" on Paste's list of the 17 Best Romantic Comedies.