Spell check may alert you to improper grammar use, niftily fix clangers as you type and almost doubtlessly make you look smarter by slashing the number of typos you’ve inflicted on your screen.īut spell check isn’t your friend. # 1 – Thou shalt not consider spell check thy friend Lest your error spotter favours the commonly reductive approach to cleaning up your work, best you heed Comma Chameleon’s commandments for manual fault-flagging excellence. Typing up a Dear John or Jane Letter that bravely strives for the most balanced metrics on the emotional-intelligence scale.Īfter all that work, it’s only fair that your expensive word-processing software rewards you with a semblance of requisite proofing. The denouement to writing up, say, your student-research paper. Spell check’s chirpy confirmation of a job well done must surely signal a mere formality: the last, if crucial, thumbs-up on the winding road to emotional closure. Photo: Your electronic typo spotter is only as good as your proofreading skills – which is not always a good thing in the business of sound reputation management. She has also contributed widely to the publishing industry as book editor and ghostwriter. Her work in broadcasting includes environmental radio and a stint as field presenter for 50/50, the SABC's long-running conservation television show. In addition to the climate crisis, she has a special interest in the illegal wildlife trade and other global conservation issues, the natural sciences as well as space sciences. She was the first South African woman journalist to oversummer in Antarctica with the South African National Antarctic Programme. A recipient of the South African National Parks environmental journalist of the year award, she's written for leading African and international publications for nearly 20 years, including the American Polar Society’s Polar Times, the Lonely Planet Guide to Antarctica and the Sunday Times. Tiara Walters writes for Daily Maverick's climate crisis unit, Our Burning Planet.
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