Monday, July 27, 2009

Trying our best

In a very instructive post on the OUP blog Brenda Gregoline writes of the AMA Manual of Style

There is a whole THOUSAND-PAGE book that tries to encompass all aspects of medical editing!

In an effort to help those who do not have time to absorb all this information Gregoline provides a list of the 10 most common errors which authors make

Number 9: Values in a table don’t add up—oh, it’s because of rounding

Well, at least it is not Number 1