A new study undertaken at Binghamton University in New York suggests that using periods at the end of text messages isn’t only unnecessary, it’s insincere, unfriendly and even heartless. We’ve known for some time that texting doesn’t require proper punctuation or spelling if the meaning is clear. Who wants to type out “talk to you…
Tag Archive: editing
Pratt Institute’s typo-correcting graffiti artist
Surgeons want to perform surgery. Editors want to edit. That may be the motive behind these graffiti incidents taking place in the Pratt Institute‘s sculpture garden in Brooklyn, NY. Each sculpture has a plaque describing the work of art. Someone (or perhaps more than one person) has been going around with a marker correcting some…
The importance of hiring an editor
The writer of the This is Horror website, Jasper Bark, says it best: “Without editors, gentle reader, most people in my profession would be screwed.” Whether one is a writer of fiction or corporate communications, it is crucial to run one’s work by a second set of eyes, not just to spot mistakes, but to…
