C'mon, you are writing what is essentially just a couple column inches and NO ONE proof reads it?
Try proofreading for a newspaper, let alone a private company. Writers are paid to write, so they decide that any scrawling on their pristine prose is sacrilege.
Proofreading Procedure 1. They pay me to fix things, make suggestions to improve the sentences, correct spelling, grammatical, and factual errors. 2. I hand the story back for corrections. 3. The writer decides I'm wrong (or changes the errors, but forget to save changes), print out a new copy so it's not red anymore, and hands it in and sends an electronic file directly to the printer for publication. 4. The job is off their desks and their minds, and they start working on the next job. 5. The printed copy/newspaper/book appears in its final form--after printing, folding, binding, and shipping--on the shelves, where readers either send out their outrage in e-mail or post on live journal. 6. My boss sees it and hauls me into the office for a dressing-down.
This is where I should have started keeping copies of the proof. This is why I'll never proof again without doing so.
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My own proofreading hell
Date: 2006-08-10 05:59 pm (UTC)Try proofreading for a newspaper, let alone a private company. Writers are paid to write, so they decide that any scrawling on their pristine prose is sacrilege.
Proofreading Procedure
1. They pay me to fix things, make suggestions to improve the sentences, correct spelling, grammatical, and factual errors.
2. I hand the story back for corrections.
3. The writer decides I'm wrong (or changes the errors, but forget to save changes), print out a new copy so it's not red anymore, and hands it in and sends an electronic file directly to the printer for publication.
4. The job is off their desks and their minds, and they start working on the next job.
5. The printed copy/newspaper/book appears in its final form--after printing, folding, binding, and shipping--on the shelves, where readers either send out their outrage in e-mail or post on live journal.
6. My boss sees it and hauls me into the office for a dressing-down.
This is where I should have started keeping copies of the proof. This is why I'll never proof again without doing so.