Articles need to be edited for grammar!

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Chris Maunder wrote: email us and we will tag that article for reworking uh, may be a stupid question, but where can we send mail regarding this issue? E-mail ID please... Gurmeet S. Kochar

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Nish Nishant

We try and fix as many of the grammar/spelling errors as we possibly can do in a reasaonable amount of time. But sometimes, people send in articles that are written in a style not acceptable to native English speakers. It's not a matter of fixing grammar but is more an issue with sentence structuring. It's possible to have gramatically correct sentences that sound really awful to a native speaker of the language. And it's almost impossible to get it right without rewriting the entire article - which is not the job of the editors. The only option we have is to reject such articles and ask the authors to have it proof-read and edited by someone who speaks English. But I do not know how many authors will be willing to do that and the end effect would be that CP would lose out on some very good articles.

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adonisv

I can see why you wouldn't want to rewrite articles because "Now with my own blog," means absolutely nothing. It's a sentence fragment. :~

adonisv

I think the articles on Code Project are great as a whole. If they were all well written, that would definitely improve the quality of the sight. Thanks. :cool:

Nish Nishant

adonisv wrote: I can see why you wouldn't want to rewrite articles because "Now with my own blog," means absolutely nothing. It's a sentence fragment. LOL, that was a good one :-D Nish

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Jeff Varszegi

You have to ask yourself whether you want a site full of many thousands of badly-written articles by happy people, or a site full of well-written articles. You're basically saying that it's not the job of the editors to edit. Part of being an editor is to reject bad content; it's an inescapable part of the job. Many articles on the site right now should be deleted outright, for plagiarism and other abuse. I offered some time ago to edit the less-well-written articles, having had decent editing experience. I was told that everything was under control, but I keep seeing indications that more editing help is needed. Badly-written articles are becoming more common, and the wait for an article to get edited seems to be increasing. Regards, Jeff Varszegi EEEP! An Extensible Expression Evaluation Package

Jeff Varszegi

the end effect would be that CP would lose out on some very good articles You're basically saying that poorly written articles can be very good, something with which most people would disagree. Regards, Jeff Varszegi EEEP! An Extensible Expression Evaluation Package

Chris Maunder

No - we are saying that the quality of the grammer is not related to the quality of the or value of the information. A poor article may contain excellent code, or may contain that snippet of information that isn't contained elsewhere on the site and that some developer, somewhere needs. We're about doing our best to provide help in whichever way we can, not about providing a glossy, well written sanitised magazine style offering. cheers, Chris Maunder

wrykyn

Hi, I've been programming for only about a year now and have used cp to learn a lot. (Not written an article as yet since I don't know enough) But I'd be more than willing to spend time to help you rewrite articles that have grammatical/spelling issues (only the text, not the code of course .. like I said I'm still a newbie) . I'm not a native speaker of English but I'm pretty well read and think I can help out if you guys want. Cheers " Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill ? "