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All errors corrected are highlighted in red or crossed out.
Gilbert Gottfried Obituary
Beloved comedian and actor Gilbert Gottfried, 61, died Tuesday of a heart attack in his home.
National Treasure Ellen DeGeneres dies at 58
This is a fictional story written for a college journalism course.
Ellen DeGeneres, best known as Dory from “Finding Nemo“ and its sequel, “Finding Dory,” died of a heart attack Tuesday at age 58. Her wife of eight years, Portia de Rossi, found the comedian unresponsive in their California home.
The Lead Lead
“Amazon Killed the Bookstore, but It Can’t Kill the Sex Store”
“E-commerce has ravaged industries more robust than the sex shop over the past decade—look to the grave of Borders (and bookstores more generally), or the woes of once-thriving retailers like Gap or J.Crew, or the decline of the American shopping mall for just a few examples.”
AP Stylebook Fun!
- unique – One can use this word just not the phrases “rather unique,” “most unique” or “very unique” to describe something.
- dissociate – This isn’t spelled “disassociate.”
- Koran – Only use this spelling if it’s used by an organization or in a title, otherwise it’s “Quran.”
- miles per hour – One can spell it out or just use “mph” and there’s no hyphen when used with numbers.
- french fries – Never capitalize “french.”
Buzzfeed Community at its Best
I’ve had my share of incoherent, sarcastic and plain trolling Buzzfeed comments – please don’t look for them – but these ones take the cake.
Punctuation is’ Important?!
When it comes to punctuation, I’m surprised Riff Raff knows how to use the shift key and not just caps lock.
NEVER FORGET WHEN RiFF RAFF PULLED UP TO THE VMA’S iN THE CANDY YAM LAMB WiTH KATY … TURNiNG POiNT iN USA HiSTORY pic.twitter.com/cULZ7K75A8
— RiFF RAFF (@JODYHiGHROLLER) August 28, 2016
bEd additing (bad editing)
Scrolling through MSN.com and I stumbled upon “Kim Richards avoids jail time again.”
Chernobyl Prezi
Study Abroad Prezi-tation
Click here to view my Prezi on my final project!
Tweets about Study Abroad
On April 9th, I attended Middle Tennessee State University’s summer study abroad orientation to learn about studying abroad for MTSU students. It was also mandatory for me if I wanted to go on my program this coming summer. These are the tweets from the event.
clarissa explains it y'all 