A copy editor recounts his obsession with perfection. By Benjamin Dreyer When I was a very young person, one of the jewels of my burgeoning personal library was a book about American Indians (as they ...
Whenever you write, your credibility is on the line. Your readers assess your trustworthiness, intelligence, competence, and attention to detail with every word you compose. You might have a great ...
The paragraph in the top panel depicts whole-word errors, ie, neglect of whole words on the left side. In the bottom panel are examples of within-word errors or unilateral paralexias, ie, where a ...