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p.i.f. — (proofreading is fundamental)

Posted by matthew on 29 Jun 2011 / 2 Comments

If you are writ­ing some­one to ask for something…it’s pretty impor­tant that you spell his/her name correctly.

Note: I’m adding p.i.f. as a new series on the blog. Though there will be some use­ful tips posted, I am pri­mar­ily doing this for fun. To make this even more enter­tain­ing, I’d like your par­tic­i­pa­tion. Please send your best exam­ples of p.i.f. to me at matthewdlyons@gmail.com. It can be a ran­dom p.i.f. thought, or an exam­ple from an actual email, sign, web post or picture.

  • domeni­ca­cooks

    Love this, Matthew. But there is always room for redemp­tion. I got my first news­pa­per job out of grad school in spite of the fact that I spelled the man­ag­ing editor’s name wrong in my cover let­ter (which he took great plea­sure in point­ing out to me).

  • http://www.matthewdlyons.com/ matthewd­lyons

    Oh, I agree. Trust me, Domenica, I am my own worst critic and need plenty of redemp­tion. Fun­nily enough, I had a few typos in this piece. Karma is a jeal­ous lover. :-)