Constant Content

I have had my first article rejected, It says on the email: -
"We cannot accept content with grammar errors, sentence structure errors, instances of awkward wording, or problems with clarity.'

I had another person check the grammar before submitting the article, and she is excellent at English. Could it be that I have spelt 'Centre' the English way, should I have spelt it the US way, as it's an American website? Also I missed that it should have a double space after each paragraph, and either be in 'Arial' or 'Times New Roman' font. I don't want to resubmit it and find these were not the only issues. Any advise would be much appreciated.

Regards Suzie

I doubt it's only because you spelled a word in the British way. Since he listed off every error he has in his form, I'd say you have some odd sentence structure somewhere.

Provided your article has been written in UK English then 'centre' won't be a problem - just don't include both US and UK English in the same article.

When re-reading your article, make sure that every sentence is crystal clear. If you find yourself having to re-read any sentence because it isn't clear on first reading, then you may need to re-word it. Don't leave any sentence that's a little unclear for the reader to work it out for him/herself - that's our job! If I have to re-read any sentence I write because its message doesn't come through straightaway, then I usually re-word it so that the next time I proof it, I (hopefully) don't.

Read your article out aloud as this may help, and again, if you falter over any sentence, if it doesn't trip off your tongue, take a look to see if it can re-worded to be improved.

Stick with it. Good luck!

Jane

Thank you so much for your feed back, I was feeling maybe I will never be a good writer, I will keep trying.