{"id":242,"date":"2007-12-14T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T00:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2007\/12\/always-double-check-your-writing\/"},"modified":"2008-07-17T17:07:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T07:07:16","slug":"always-double-check-your-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2007\/12\/always-double-check-your-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Always double-check your writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing well is more than just getting words onto the page &#8211; you also need to check the correct words and spelling\u00a0are there to be read.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking at a website the other day and I&#8217;m sure they didn&#8217;t proof read it &#8211; maybe they didn&#8217;t actually read it at all once it was written. On their contact page it states:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0px 0.9pt 0px 13.85pt\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: blue;\">Submit your answers and reply or call at no time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The bit that jumped out at me was &#8216;call at no time&#8217; &#8211; not exactly a welcoming message for a business! The mistake of &#8216;no&#8217; instead of &#8216;any&#8217; is simple to make but has a big impact on the final meaning of your words.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, &#8216;submit your answers and reply&#8217; doesn&#8217;t make sense either. Reading over their work (or getting someone else to read it for them) could have ended with webcopy that made sense.<\/p>\n<p>So always read through and check your writing says what you wanted it to say, without missing words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing well is more than just getting words onto the page &#8211; you also need to check the correct words and spelling\u00a0are there to be read. I was looking at a website the other day and I&#8217;m sure they didn&#8217;t proof read it &#8211; maybe they didn&#8217;t actually read it at all once it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,59,60],"tags":[576,125,120],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-details-2","category-web-content","category-writing","tag-double-check","tag-grammar","tag-spelling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}