Here’s a newsfeed e-mailed by Mr. Leoncio Contreras about grammatical errors and typos in the US print media (November 5, 2011):
In “Readers care about grammatical errors, typos,” a commentary written for the Readers Representative Journal of the
Los Angeles Times, Deirdre Edgar responds to readers’ feedback about grammatical errors and typos in the paper and cites the following major findings of a newspaper readership study done over a three-month period for the American Copy Editors Society recently:
1. Readers who read more news tend to be more critical than people who read less.
2. Dedicated readers expect a higher level of quality than casual readers, particularly in terms of grammar and professionalism.
3. Readers notice grammar errors and find them troubling and distracting.
4. Readers notice writing that is garbled and confusing, and when words are misspelled or misused.
5. Most readers are less concerned about errors of style and story structure than they are about professionalism and grammar.
Read “Readers care about grammatical errors, typos” in full in the Los Angeles Times now!
