Basic
things about grammar like prepositions and commas and punctuation.
Not exact matches
Jon quoted her tweet saying, «No @thenanaaba the only
thing we're worried
about is the spelling, syntax and
grammar in some of your tweets!»
I don» t care
about grammar and all such
things.
It isn't
about bad
grammar and poor storytelling skills, cuz even traditional authors do those
things.
She has prepared incredibly well and is even making sense to me who has a major problem with
grammar, punctuation and other technical
things about writing.»
When I asked him
about his cringeworthy
grammar and punctuation, his response was that those
things were not his concern.
As
things stand... you're effectually saying that all these folks suggesting
grammar corrections = self - publishers, who don't know quality — but that means self - publishers are the only ones who know or care enough
about correct
grammar to comment, which means that self - publishers are the ones who know correct
grammar.
I averaged
about one minor correction per page, stuff that most readers would pass over, but the sort of
things that drive a
grammar nazi bonkers.
In Ten
Things I've Learned From Evaluating Self - Published Books for a Year, Bennett writes of how «self - published authors need to care more
about grammar,» and -LSB-...]
When I read a book from a traditional publisher, I know up front a long of
things about the book: 1) a team of editors decided something
about the book is good, 2) the book has an editor who worked with the author on content, 3) it has a copy editor who worked on
grammar and consistency and 4) it has marketers and publicists who, yes, will probably convince the author not to send a blogger who gives them a negative review hate mail.
(Also, thanks to Presidio MBA Student Edward West for co-conducting this interview and diligently transcribing the entire
thing, and Treehugger's Kyeann Sayer for top of the line
grammar and editing skills) Finally - here's a link to the survey that Hunter mentioned
about the market for sustainably produced Afghan carpets - LINK HERE.
Plus, if you read this article
about sentence structure and nouns and prenominal modifiers, you can have a leg up grammatically, too, which is one of the Internet's other favorite
things (and when you get called a «
grammar Nazi» you can throw «garbage person» right back in their face).
I know most people hate those of us who care
about grammar, but that aside, when I start reading what I expect is an intelligent review for productivity software, and the first
thing I see in the «Summary» is a high school level
grammar error all credibility goes out the window.
When we talked
about some
grammar mistakes, which you could do during the resume writing process, we would like to remind you another important
thing you should double check.
Grammar and spelling should be checked carefully (including looking for
things that automatic spell - checking would miss) because misspellings and poorly constructed sentences communicate negative impressions
about a candidate.