Monday 16 January 2012

The joy of typos

After the debacle of my frist post in today's lesson, I've decided to explain the difference between typos and spelling mistakes...

A spelling mistake (or poor use of grammar) is something students make.

A typo (short for typographical error) is NEVER an (admitted) spelling mistake and is usually made by a teacher or professional journalist to explain away spelling mistakes as part of some purile face-saving exercise...

In short, double, even trebble-check everything you post up and commit to print for your projects - as with an exam you won't be able to explain away frist page mistakes as a typo to an examiner ;-)

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