Showing posts with label University of Oxford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label University of Oxford. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 May 2016

Double-take, # 232

This mangled text was found on Oxford University’s website by Arina, who comments: ‘It’s hilarious that this comes from the description of a module on editing.’

Link: University of Oxford Language Centre, ‘English for Academic Studies’
Repetition of copy: ‘Editing your Thesis with Corpora is a short (12-hour) course designed for doctoral students who are at the transfer stage […] This 12-hour intensive course is designed for doctoral students who have passed the transfer stage […].’

Friday, 1 February 2013

Not Washed or Cooked, # 7

No spellcheckers or proofreaders in Oxford University's Department of Experimental Psychology?


It's not the only one, and this one seems more reprehensible: 


Perhaps the 'artifical intelligence' will help with this kind of thing when it's been created. It'll probably have a spellchecker built in.