Monday 3 June 2013

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 57

StudyMode.com ('Inspiring Better Grades') featured in in a post in January, which discussed the ethics of selling essays to/writing essays for students. I came across a(nother) typographical error on the site  recently, and thought it would be worth investigating it further. Here are a few of the many examples of that error (and a range of other errors arising incidentally from the search) found in essays available from Studymode's database. Do note that these are all marked 'Premium'.








A bit of a logical issue with that last one…

In super-cynical mode, I wondered whether the hideous grammatical, spelling and typographical errors are built in deliberately, intended to reproduce the kinds of mistakes that might occur in the work of this age group… Yet surely not, in essays intended only as 'reference material and thought-starters'.

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