July 17, 200818 yr Alright, so I've written my 1st article on MB.com. http://www.marlinbaseball.com/huh-the-marlins/ Hope you guys like it. You can read it HERE, first!
July 17, 200818 yr Not bad. Good info, a bit too carried away with commas (sometimes it's better to just start another sentence) and "sayings in quotation marks" though. I don't know how familiar you are with AP Style, or maybe you were just treating this more as a casual article, but any numbers less than 10 are spelled out, not written as numbers. I know you are interested in the journalism field, so I thought I'd just throw that out there. Otherwise, the tone of the article fits the site: Very casual and laid-back. No problems with that. BTW, I do have a bachelor's degree in Journalism with a minor in English, so I figured I'd take the opportunity to help a fellow wordsmith out
July 17, 200818 yr Author Not bad. Good info, a bit too carried away with commas (sometimes it's better to just start another sentence) and "sayings in quotation marks" though. I don't know how familiar you are with AP Style, or maybe you were just treating this more as a casual article, but any numbers less than 10 are spelled out, not written as numbers. I know you are interested in the journalism field, so I thought I'd just throw that out there. Otherwise, the tone of the article fits the site: Very casual and laid-back. No problems with that. BTW, I do have a bachelor's degree in Journalism with a minor in English, so I figured I'd take the opportunity to help a fellow wordsmith out Thanks And I noticed the commas thing too. I just got caught up in the appositives, in the sentences, and I went overboard in one of the sentences. And yeah...I wrote "1" instead of "one," I believe. Again, thanks, for the advice.
July 17, 200818 yr not gonna lie... i;m drunk and read two paragraphs and it passed as decent some what funny i suppose. Drops. I'll read it sober too :drunks
July 17, 200818 yr read it this morning and as people as saying to many commas. Overall though it isn't bad and I like the flow of the article.
July 18, 200818 yr Author Thanks guys. I'll watch out for the commas next time. I hope you guys enjoyed the main idea of the article, though.
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