Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Writing about Dance

Any and all published writing should be carefully read for errors.
Specifically, the USA Dance magazine contains mistakes that make the meaning of the sentences unclear. We can be forgiving, like a "nice" English teacher, but since ballroom dancing is important to us, we want to understand.
"Rainer Ng, president of the ballroom team's president.." makes no sense. As a former English teacher, I know a careless rewrite when I see one.
In "A Judge's Perspective", several comma errors stopped me from a smooth read of an otherwise very good article.
As presentation is important in a routine, so grammar is important in a magazine. Copy editors are cheap.

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