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PERRY
 17 Jan 2012, 09:35 #139783 Reply To Post
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I have to just interject here with a recent experience of my own viz a viz the author questions.

Not yours of course, Perry Hunni, but another 'writer' whose work I did take on to review, and review it I certainly did - after having to copy and paste into Word, re-format and re-arrange before I could even start to read it as it was so badly formatted/written.

It took me the best part of three hours from start to finish as I also corrected it to a basic standard on the way.

When I got to the questions, three of them made no sense at all asking things similar to 'Who did he look at?' Who did WHO look at? and 'Why did he tilt his head?'. I went through that piece about five times and could not find any point at which he tilted his head!

Despite this, I saved my review and the corrected version because I felt the author needed help and if he'd had no reviews this was why.

I e-mailed YWO and I put a message to the author on the massage board but nada.

So, I think we all might have a look at our questions and make sure they make sense and are not too obscure for a reviewer to see.

Not that I think this is the case with you Perrry, Hunni....


Entirely missed this one until now Yes I came across impossible questions like that myself an have saved the review for whenever I catch up with the befuddling bounder. Asking questions where answers are not contained in the text is most irritating, especially when you've spent time wading through syntax which could serve for a part of the Krypton Factor.
Stop purring - it's doing strange things to me
This post was last edited by PERRY, 17 Jan 2012, 09:36
Galadrielle
 18 Jan 2012, 18:31 #139883 Reply To Post
Quote: PERRY, Tuesday, 17 Jan 2012 09:35
Quote: Galadrielle



I have to just interject here with a recent experience of my own viz a viz the author questions.

Not yours of course, Perry Hunni, but another 'writer' whose work I did take on to review, and review it I certainly did - after having to copy and paste into Word, re-format and re-arrange before I could even start to read it as it was so badly formatted/written.

It took me the best part of three hours from start to finish as I also corrected it to a basic standard on the way.

When I got to the questions, three of them made no sense at all asking things similar to 'Who did he look at?' Who did WHO look at? and 'Why did he tilt his head?'. I went through that piece about five times and could not find any point at which he tilted his head!

Despite this, I saved my review and the corrected version because I felt the author needed help and if he'd had no reviews this was why.

I e-mailed YWO and I put a message to the author on the massage board but nada.

So, I think we all might have a look at our questions and make sure they make sense and are not too obscure for a reviewer to see.

Not that I think this is the case with you Perrry, Hunni....


Entirely missed this one until now Yes I came across impossible questions like that myself an have saved the review for whenever I catch up with the befuddling bounder. Asking questions where answers are not contained in the text is most irritating, especially when you've spent time wading through syntax which could serve for a part of the Krypton Factor.
Stop purring - it's doing strange things to me




Perrry, LOL!
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