Below is a clickable list of all the posts in the Bite-sized Tips series. If you’d like to find out more about why I spend time on this type of post, please read: ‘Why All the Fuss about Spellings and Style Guides?’
- Common Mistakes in Papers for Publication Part 1 (some punctuation basics)
- Spellings Part 1 – One Word or Two?
- Spellings Part 2 – Ten You Should Know
- Spellings Part 3 – Some You Might Not Know (mishmash & some UK/US differences)
- Spanish Place Names (how to write them in English)
- Common Mistakes in Papers for Publication Part 2 (data is or data are?)
- Spellings Part 4 – One Word
- Spellings Part 5 – Mostly Points & Hyphens
- Spellings Part 6 – Hyphenated
- Spellings Part 7 – Two Words
- Spellings Part 8 – Only One Word
- Spellings Part 9 – All One Word Again
- Spellings Part 10 – By the Sea
- Spellings Part 11 – Fighting the Spellcheckers
- Spellings Part 12 – Pesky Hyphens
- Times (Is is a.m. or am? What does 12.00 a.m. mean? And more)
- Spellings Part 13 – Some that might trip you up
- Spellings Part 14 – Some Tricky Ones
- Spellings Part 15 – Another Ten
- Watch out for the Dragon (spelling and punctuation problems with using DNS)
- Spellings Part 16 – Getting Trickier Every Time
- Spellings Part 17 – The Dragon Agrees (10 spellings DNS gets right)
- Spellings Part 18 – Disagreements with the Dragon (10 things DNS gets wrong)
- Quotation Marks or Italics
- False Friends on Hotel Websites
- Common Mistakes in Papers for Publication Part 3 – Numbers (1) general, decades and centuries
- Common Mistakes in Papers for Publication Part 4 – Numbers (2) dates and currencies
- Common Mistakes in Papers for Publication Part 5 – Numbers (3) percentages, mathematical symbols and footnotes
Thanks for the tips. I teach a course in translation and interpretation and am always on the lookout for ideas for translators, that is, to help support my content in class. Several of these tips have been discussed in class. Keep them coming!
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I’m glad you’ve found them helpful. I have lots of ideas for more, just need to find the time.
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