The Great Typo Hunt

Recommended Read Deck, Jeff and Benjamin D. Herson. The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World One Correction at a Time. New York: Broadway Paperbacks, 2010. [ISBN-13: 978-0-307-59108-1] So what do you do if you want to change the world and your superpower is a knowledge of grammar? If you’re Jeff Deck, you climb […]

Transposing Letters and Words

Proofreaders’ Marks Today’s proofreaders’ mark allows you to swap two letters or words. Sometimes those typing fingers just go so fast that our letters jumble, or our cutting and pasting goes a little awry and our words end up in the wrong order. The transpose mark… …allows you to quickly mark the correction without rewriting […]