copyediting; they usually cover the basic
rules of grammar pretty thoroughly, and they'll be filled with motivated
students who are there because they want to be. Check your local community college and university extension catalogs -- you'll be amazed at
what they offer. A side benefit is that taking courses involves meeting
people you can actually see.
Know what you're talking about and
make sense
Pay attention to the content of your writing. Be sure you know what
you're talking about -- when you see yourself writing "it's my understanding that" or "I believe it's the case," ask yourself whether you
really want to post this note before checking your facts. Bad information propagates like wildfire on the net. And once it's been through two
or three iterations, you get the same distortion effect as in the party
game "Operator": Whatever you originally said may be unrecognizable. (Of course, you could take this as a reason not to worry about the
accuracy of your postings. But you're only responsible for what you
post yourself, not for what anyone else does with it.)
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