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Zabrina, It is not my goal. In passing the article around to ask for opinions on it, it ended up in the hands of a magazine editor. The magazine wants to buy it. They felt that the article was well written and has great information that will be beneficial to people who are wanting to homeschool. Amy...

Jane, Actually, I did touch on classroom size as one of the topics. Ed specifically stated "Readers want facts that are relevant to their situation; what "some people feel" about a situation or what other people do is not useful, usable information for a reader." His issue is wit...

OK - I will probably get lambasted by Ed for posting this here, but I don't care at this point. This issue was dropped BY ME at 9:27 am today. Others felt the need to come in and beat me up some more and tell me HOURS later to drop it for now after it WAS dropped!!!!!!!! I am not posting the whole t...

Amy, First of all, there was no "dig" about your waxing article. Heck, I would find that useful. The only point was how ED feels about an article about waxing. You say: "He never said in his posts here that the basic idea behind your article isn't useful." YES HE DID Here, I'll c...

Zabrina, The point is that Ed refuses to answer direct questions and then treats people like idiots when they disagree with him. He can't give concrete answers. How the heck do we write what he dictates readers will be interested in when he gives us no guidelines to go by? THAT is the point. He has ...

Of course it is - because you said so. LOL

Amy, Thanks for the attempt at encouragement. My reasoning stands. How can we possibly write what Ed feels others will want to read if Ed won't tell us where those guidelines are? According to Ed, my article was rejected because it did not "offer useful information to the reader". HOWEVER,...

It was a simple question. Are you the sole judge of what is "useful information to the reader"? And another quick one - how in the world do we, as writers, know what you will find useful? It's a serious question.

"articles must offer useful information to the reader" And you are the sole judge of that? Every one of the homeschoolers in our group said they wished they had read an article like this BEFORE deciding to homeschool. They especially thought that if they had something like the "Concer...

The problem is that I didn't say "I feel..." anything. It was all facts based on an informal survey of local homeschoolers. There was no source to quote. It wasn't a school study or a university study. I did simply state facts. I am a homeschooler. The article was written as reasons why pe...

I submitted an article almost two weeks ago. Today it was rejected. Here is the supposed reason why: ==== Rejection Information for Your Article: ==== This article makes generalized statements that are not supported by facts/evidence. In addition, it does not present the information in a way that is...

Exactly right, Ed. That's why I use the sites while proofreading and before submitting the article.

I use a plagiarism checker because sometimes I see a phrase and wonder "Did I come up with that, or have I read it somewhere before?" When you are a voracious reader, it is easy to use a phrase that you have read before in your writing. Granted, you aren't going to be using large chunks of...

THANK YOU Lysis and Celeste for your constructive critisism of my article!! It got accepted today. I appreciate all of the wonderful support here on the site.

Roxanne

http://www.articlechecker.com/ is a great place to use as well.