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		<title>Punctured Punctuated lists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lists are handy. What can a list do? A list Presents information briefly and memorably Assembles material that belongs together Groups items that contribute to an understanding of something greater What punctuation is required in a list? Should the list be part of a sentence? Should the items be numbered? Here are some practical guidelines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twisted words</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At FastProof we proofread lots of university papers written by students from overseas. They manage to study in an unfamiliar language, and we do our best to improve their grammar without influencing their content. The topic is always interesting even if unfamiliar. In the last year proofreading has kept me well informed about housing in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now on facebook, so everything&#8217;s half price</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the launch of the FastProof facebook page. Hurrah! We hope it makes proofreading accessible to heaps of Kiwis so we can help them publish their documents with confidence. To keep in touch with our promotions and activities, go to facebook, search for FastProof and &#8216;like&#8217; us. NOTE: Choose the co.nz. version, not .org [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reprinting is ruinous</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you buy professional printing for brochures, advertisements or product information. Before the printer makes the plates he asks you to sign the proof. Hence you approve the colours, images, wording, fonts, layout and everything else about the job. Then the job gets made. So it has to be right. If there&#8217;s a mistake, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you need FastProof?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What exactly is proofreading? Everyone&#8217;s different, and their documents are different. It&#8217;s hard to make rules for them all, so we&#8217;re flexible. FastProof is designed to be fast, inexpensive and good quality. To fulfil the promise of bringing proofreading to everyone, we correct only spelling, punctuation and basic grammar. Correcting basic grammar means fixing missing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;S&#8221; is for possessive</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The letter &#8220;s&#8221; is used with an apostrophe to indicate possession — as in &#8220;my aunt&#8217;s pen.&#8221; The usage goes back over 1500 years, around 450 AD, to Old English, language of the Anglo-Saxons. The language had deep roots in Latin, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit which produced a complex system of noun declensions and verb [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t make mistakes, ok?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Troubled by typos? Maddened by misspellings? My best advice for you is this: don&#8217;t make mistakes. If you take this advice, you won&#8217;t need spell checkers (which leave mistakes because they have no brain), editors (who have brains but need plenty of money) or Aunt Maisy (who&#8217;s quite skilled but often takes a nap) to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips and hints</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Duplicate words It&#8217;s easy to type little words twice and, if they end up in the sneakily right place in a paragraph, it&#8217;s hard to spot the duplication. Watch out for words like &#8220;the&#8221;,&#8221;of&#8221;, &#8220;and&#8221;, &#8220;air&#8221;, &#8220;salt&#8221;, &#8220;back&#8221;, &#8220;butt&#8221; and &#8220;but&#8221; hiding copies of themselves where you least expect them. Even longer words can get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is exciting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Newsletter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The launch of FastProof on 20 February was followed behind the scenes by frenetic activity as we hit the phones to sign up businesses for our newsletter. Preliminary figures show an astounding uptake above 90 percent. We&#8217;re very excited. Many businesses have been trying without success to find a proofreader, and FastProof finally gives them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing is reason</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Treadgold</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all hope and expect to be ruled by reason. Years before we become adults, our childish instincts are firmly aligned with fair play. The child&#8217;s strident cry of &#8220;that&#8217;s not fair!&#8221; is invariably well-founded, but where does it come from? The first source is the natural, innate sense of fairness. Later we gain access [...]]]></description>
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