Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Say "cheese"

From Mr. Redundancy: "a built-in camera for taking pictures."

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Featured: Bad Intro

"The iPhone 4 is a popular, fully-featured smartphone that features a number of features..."

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Negativity

This is what Demand copy editors refer to as a TFPT (10-foot-pole title): "How to Not Sync an App Without Deleting It"

Your guess is as good as mine.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Editing test, a first

I sent a cold letter of inquiry re freelance work to a publishing company in NoVA, after seeing a craigslist post for a managing editor position (I think that's what it was; in any case it mentioned managing freelancers). I got a response today, with an 8-page editing test. Among the instructions was this: 

"3. Please supply a document-specific style sheet; it should show (1) a list of specific vocabulary terms and word spellings/usage particular to this document; (2) conventions for number usage; (3) acronyms used in the document; (4)  hyphenation usage (specific hyphenated terms) in this chapter; (5) special symbols used, if any; and (5) a query list (referencing the approximate line number where the query occurs within your edited file)."

I don't think so.