Legal Writing

Publishing Horror Stories

By Sharon

Want to know which mistakes to avoid? Here’s a publisher’s perspective. In the latest issue of Publishing Basics, Carolyn Madison reveals some of the errors that make publishers cringe.  These include misspellings, poor grammar and punctuation, structural problems, ambiguous messages and inaccurate content.

They have a nice list of the always common misspelled words also:

• Affect or Effect
• Ensure, Insure, or Assure
• It?s or Its
• Two, Too, or To
• Set or Sit
• Then or Than
• There, Their, or They?re
• That, Which, Who, Whom, or Whose
• Like or As if
• Roll or Role
• Quite or Quiet
• Though or Thorough
• Since or Because
• Should of or Should have
• Less or Fewer
• Amount of or Number of
• Over or More than
• Capitol or Capital

Check out the full list of publishing horror stories.

Publishing Horror Stories

Full post as published by Daily Writing Tips on July 25, 2008 (boomark / email).