Copy Edit the World Part 1

1. I found the following peculiar mistake in Mike Zapler's article, "Schwarzenegger signs budget deal" that was placed in Friday's edition of the San Jose Mercury News.

"... Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento — who Tuesday had ordered that legislators be locked inside the Capitol building until they forged a deal — at one point ordered recalcitrant Democrats into his office one by one to try to win their cooperation.

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Even so, when the Senate resumed session about 3:40 a.m., four Democrats initially refused to vote for Maldonado's..."

THE MISTAKE : There is a fragment in-between both of these body paragraphs. The author should have edited it out or expanded upon its original purpose.

LINK: http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_11750411?nclick_check=1

2. I found another grammatical error in one of the later paragraphs of the same article by Mike Zapler. Here is the sentence with the problem:

"State Controller John Chiang's office is awaiting the state Department of Finance to provide details of the budget, which are expected in about a week, before determining when payments can resume".

THE MISTAKE: The author forgot to put a period mark after the last word of this sentence, 'resume'.
LINK: http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_11750411?nclick_check=1

3. 1. While surfing www.omg.yahoo.com I came accross a photo of Jessica Alba that had a typo in it's caption:

"Jessica Alba may be back to her pre-baby body, but getting their wasn't easy. The actress told Elle magazine that her workouts were so grueling that she would cry afterwards."

THE MISTAKE: Whoever wrote this made a word usage mistake. He or she should have used the word "there" instead of "their" in the first sentence.
LINK : http://omg.yahoo.com/photos/week-in-photos-february-1-7-2009/2636?nc#id=9

4. I noticed a spelling mistake in the first sentence of the directions for our "News Story #2 : Cathedral Robbery" assignment:

"You're at your desk in the San Francisco bureau of a newspaper, working on a sotry and listening to the police scanner.

THE MISTAKE : The word "story" is mistakenly spelled "sotry" in the first sentence.
LINK : http://jmcweb.sjsu.edu/mccune/61/cathedralrobbery.html

5. While reading through the article, "Dating Secret Exposed: Why Nice Guys Finish Last" by April Masini (a "Special to Yahoo! Personals) I noticed that the author started a lot of her sentences incorrectly, as in the following example:

"And as obvious as that sounds, if you are one of those guys I described that is exactly what you are trying to do. And it won't work."

THE MISTAKE: The author started these sentences with "and", which is grammatically incorrect. She should have omitted the word 'and' from the first sentence and changed the period at the end of the first sentence into a comma.
LINK: http://dating.personals.yahoo.com/singles/datingtips/85967/dating-secret-exposed-why-nice-guys-finish-last