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by ReneeF
Thu Jan 23, 2014 1:16 pm
Forum: Questions About Rejections
Topic: Rejected for being an autobiography?
Replies: 2
Views: 3378

Rejected for being an autobiography?

Back in October I wrote an article for a request which wanted fun, playful, and magazine style articles about artists. So I wrote a piece about a new geek fandom artists who is up and coming into the art scene. (The request expired by the time they reviewed the article over a week later after the in...
by ReneeF
Thu Jan 23, 2014 1:06 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: awkward wording!
Replies: 10
Views: 10753

Re: awkward wording!

I suspect that the editors are bouncing back these articles for "awkward wording" for a grammatical aspect and also to improve their bottom line. I suspect they are less worried about spiders and SEO than readability and smooth text. Therefore, being even more of a perfectionist than the e...
by ReneeF
Wed Jan 22, 2014 1:02 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: awkward wording!
Replies: 10
Views: 10753

Re: awkward wording!

I found the following links helpful: http://conventionallanguage.blogspot.com/2008/07/15-awkward-wording.html https://www1.villanova.edu/content/villanova/artsci/acsp/writingcenter/resources/handouts/_jcr_content/pagecontent/download/file.res/AvoidingAwkwardSentences.pdf I've gotten the same rejecti...
by ReneeF
Mon Jan 13, 2014 10:53 am
Forum: Questions About Rejections
Topic: "Sounds awkward"
Replies: 6
Views: 5248

Re: "Sounds awkward"

I would have said "several gigabytes in size..."

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/amount.html

Kinda reminds me of this little directive in their extended guidelines.
by ReneeF
Mon Jan 13, 2014 10:50 am
Forum: Questions About Rejections
Topic: Capitalization question
Replies: 4
Views: 4955

Re: Capitalization question

Like Jak said, maybe its refers to one small mistake within the article. I got a two sentence rejection about misuse of capitols (in about a 200 word rejection "essay" only to find one errant capitalized first word of a sentence and no other errant capitals or forgotten capitals. When I re...
by ReneeF
Fri Jan 10, 2014 4:23 pm
Forum: Site Renovations Writer's Suggestions
Topic: Writer Guidelines Printable Book (and a small request)
Replies: 0
Views: 13844

Writer Guidelines Printable Book (and a small request)

What would be extraordinarily helpful to writers here is an all inclusive guidelines book which we can print out. The Writer Guidelines Book should include a page or two of general checklist items of things found within the book, for writers to reference when editing their article. I'd go as far as ...
by ReneeF
Wed Jan 08, 2014 9:54 am
Forum: Questions About Rejections
Topic: My own original work should not be labeled plagiarism
Replies: 6
Views: 5236

Re: My own original work should not be labeled plagiarism

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by ReneeF
Tue Jan 07, 2014 6:57 am
Forum: Questions About Rejections
Topic: Paragraphs must be able to stand apart from their subheading
Replies: 3
Views: 4019

Re: Paragraphs must be able to stand apart from their subhea

Hallo, It's hard to guess without seeing an article extract. It's only a guess but I've had a rejection in the past because I didn't explicitly re-state the sub-heading in the body of the para. Something like: 'How does X work? The things acts on the other thing and then it all goes round.' So the ...
by ReneeF
Fri Jan 03, 2014 3:09 pm
Forum: Questions About Rejections
Topic: Paragraphs must be able to stand apart from their subheading
Replies: 3
Views: 4019

Paragraphs must be able to stand apart from their subheading

I had an article (actually ten articles) accepted and approved for over a month and I voluntarily took it down to make changes to some long, but not run-on, sentences. The article(s) were rejected for issues that should have been noticed by editors the first approval time before I took them down. Mo...