Checked each of the eight mistake categories against standard English usage: articles, verb tense, subject-verb agreement, prepositions, word order, countable and uncountable nouns, plural and possessive forms, and modal verbs. Confirmed the corrected examples are accurate and that the explanations match how the errors present in ESL writing.
Article attributed a claim about diminishing returns from frequent feedback to Zenger and Folkman's research,… → Replaced the Zenger and Folkman claim with an accurate description of their actual research emphasis, removed…
View proof record →Reviewed the business-proposal writing guide for English clarity and content quality.
View proof record →Reviewed the executive-summary guide from a content-quality and English-editing standpoint.
View proof record →Article mischaracterized Deborah Tannen's real 1994 book (actually about gendered conversational style, not… → Both sections were rewritten to keep only the real, verifiable content: Tannen, Minto, Bernoff, and Flesch's…
View proof record →Article relabeled real Economist Intelligence Unit survey categories (swapping which percentage applied to… → EIU passage corrected to accurately reflect the real survey's category labels without the unverified cost…
View proof record →Article attributed a specific 'survey of knowledge workers' finding to Cal Newport's real book that the book… → Newport passage reframed to accurately describe his case-study-based argument rather than an unverified…
View proof record →Article presented a real statistic with a decontextualized/simplified experimental framing, and attached an… → Restored the real experimental context for the Epley/Kruger figures (email vs voice comparison); replaced the…
View proof record →Article cited specific researchers, journals, years, and statistics (e. → Removed or generalized unverified statistics and misattributed methodological details while preserving the…
View proof record →"Clear writing is a courtesy. → As William Zinsser argued throughout On Writing Well, clear writing is a courtesy to the reader: it reflects…
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