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Why not create a forum for "Peer Critique" or something like that?

[quote="grouchy"]Just to back up for a minute to CLandes' comment about "Dumbing Down Kids" -- what's scary is that these dumbed-down kids are the ones that are running the Internet and doing the article-shopping, in large part. (Shivers) :shock:[/quote] Needlepoint philosophers ...

It seems the nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from in any particular area. :-) I just finished reading, "Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good about Themselves but Can't Read, Write, or Add" by Charles L. Sykes (1995). Creative spelling is onl...

[quote="Ed"]...Basically, m-dashes are used to break off (or up) a thought.

"No wait! You forgot your--" Sally said as the car pulled away.Ed[/quote]


Hmm...I'm thinking I shouldn't ask about the ellipsis, then.

Yes, but if I were a Web developer and had to routinely remove the tons and tons of extra code MS Word inserts when you 'Save A' HTML, I'd shoot myself in the head!

Okay, what if I submit an example article with this HTML basic nothing code? I write all the content for our site, and I know exactly how much of a pain it is to have to remove extraneous code. On the other hand, my proposition makes it a breeze to simply copy and paste into any Web site area. When ...

Well Gosh!...if dashes are exciting, then I may's well bring up another, related issue. :-) Reading the submit guidelines, I'd thought I'd just use the HTML document form. With a <DIV> surrounding the article to turn it into sans serif font, there'd be no formatting codes other than <P> and the Head...

I was looking for a category related to advice, help, or eduction for teens. Maybe I missed it, but I ended up thinking that "Lifestyles" would be the best place to post an article. I see there's the singles lifestyle, but nothing for today's adolescents (which also might even move into un...

Well, I guess since I'm asking about text-only formatting, I'm thinking along the lines of NotePad.

I'm new here, having read as much as I can about guidelines and conventions, and I have a question about the m-dash. I tend to see 3 hyphens better than 2 in a text-based, unformatted Web article.

What's the style guideline for a plain-text m-dash, and for the n-dash?

That's an excellent idea, reading it backwards! Another trick I've used when proofing is critical, is to run the content through a text reading program. I happen to have ReadPlease, but there are plenty of others available. I don't use it for spelling and grammar so much as for "hearing" h...