Thread: Spelling and grammar nazis gather here!

Not wanting to offend, and purely from the perspective of adult education, I may suggest that the aim for the students in a professional writing course is to be able write grammatically correct articles themselves.

Otherwise what's the purpose of the course, you may as well go and buy the qualification from the internet!

In August 2000, residents presented Newcastle City Council with a 381 signature petition asking to declare the streets of Oldmeadow off-limits to the trucks from Koondooloo Mine’s trucks.

Repeated 'trucks' in this sentence

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Not wanting to offend, and purely from the perspective of adult education, I may suggest that the aim for the students in a professional writing course is to be able write grammatically correct articles themselves.

Otherwise what's the purpose of the course, you may as well go and buy the qualification from the internet!

I see where you are coming from. The way I see it, to write grammatically well I need to learn to write grammatically.

Feel free to make any suggestions, I may not neccessarily use them, but I hope to learn from them.

Sam

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Not wanting to offend, and purely from the perspective of adult education, I may suggest that the aim for the students in a professional writing course is to be able write grammatically correct articles themselves.

Otherwise what's the purpose of the course, you may as well go and buy the qualification from the internet!

I agree you need to be able to write correctly but having someone else review your work is invaluable.

Its usually much easier for someone who hasn't seen the work before to spot errors and give feedback about how easy it is to read and how clear it is than for the person who may have already read the entire passage several times.

Iam not an English teacher but here is my take.
Many things are debatable, maybe not correct or incorrect.
I always had an uphill job trying to have Ad agencies use grammatical english.
[QUOTE]
Residents of Oldmeadow prepared to block Runaround Road from (to) traffic

Residents of Oldmeadow are prepared to physically block traffic on Runaround road to protest against the 30 heavy trucks that use the road every hour.

These trucks travel 24 hours a day between the Chinese-(no hyphen) owned Koondooloo Mine in Oldmeadow, and the loading docks in Newcastle harbour.

Fears have grown in the suburb after three people were killed when two mine trucks hauling coal collided in Sydney’s west on the 19th of March(this year or 2011).

Senior Sergeant Bruce Keith, of the Accident Research Squad, said it appeared an empty truck returning to a mine crossed to the wrong side of the road, and collided with a loaded coal- (no hyphen)truck leaving the mine.
A house was demolished in the accident, killing three residents.

“Both trucks involved in the collision were part of a 24-hour coal- (no hyphen) delivery shuttle from the Royslaven mine near Lithgow” he said.

Residents of Oldmeadow have been fighting to minimise the amount of heavy traffic (transitting) the area receives for over 20 years.

In August 2000, residents presented Newcastle City Council with a 381 signature petition asking to declare the streets of Oldmeadow off-limits to the trucks from Koondooloo Mine’s trucks.

Newcastle City Council accepted the petition without comment, and no action has yet been taken.

Since the mine was re-opened by the Chinese consortium Tang Dynasty Mining in December 2008, residents of Oldmeadow have banded together to form a local action group, the Newcastle North Residents Group.

Ten houses on Runaround road have only eight feet separating their lounge room and (from) the street.

During rail strikes, the Newcastle City Council’s Chief Traffic Officer Simon Sedd has reported that traffic at least doubles on the already busy suburban streets during rail strikes.( Hmm debatable this. the point is the rail strike so maybe give it it's own sentence.eg It is most severe during rail strikes.The Newcastle etc etc )

“It’s a bad situation that’s becoming worse day by day.” Mr Sedd said.

Resident’s fears spiked once before in July 2004 when a 10 year old boy was left in a serious condition in hospital after being hit by a car at an Oldmeadow Primary School crossing.

Oldmeadow Primary School runs alongside Runaround road and Pitt Street, which are both heavily used by trucks hauling coal and oil to and from Koondooloo mine.( cap)

Regards Philip A

Runaround road and Pitt Street, which are both

Should be Road and I'm pretty sure the which should be that? I may be wrong.

I would have helped had you not used the term "nazis".

I find that most offensive - it's almost like those that use it have never heard of the real Nazis and what they did.

Originally Posted by series3

Hi everyone,

I have an assessment for 'professional writing' that needs to be with as few faults and errors as possible.

Would anyone skilled in grammar, spelling and punctuation mind casting their eye over the below fictitious 'press release' to see what they come up with?

Many thanks,

Sam

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These trucks travel 24 hours a day between the Chinese-owned Koondooloo Mine in Oldmeadow, and the loading docks in Newcastle harbour.


Senior Sergeant Bruce Keith, of the Accident Research Squad, said it appeared an empty truck returning to a mine crossed to the wrong side of the road, and collided with a loaded coal-truck leaving the mine.
A house was demolished in the accident, killing three residents.



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I believe it is not necessary, nor correct to use a comma before "and".