We're flexible

Not sure of what you need done or how long it will take? We're happy to discuss your needs and see if we're a good fit. Send us a page or two if you like, and we'll be happy to discuss options.  Need it done quickly? That's a definite maybe. You never know your luck. 

Technology

We know our way around technology, including content management systems and a wide range of e-learning systems. We're happy to work with Word, PDFs, file-sharing services, or pen and paper.

To be frank, some of the text on this page is just guff left over from those days when we took it all so seriously. Ah! Those heady days of 2015. We were so earnest, so keen. Tablets and styluses or perhaps styli were still considered hi-tech and exciting, just like in the Bronze Age. But then that dastardly Biff Tannen delivered that sports almanac to himself and timelines shifted. Many fell: Harambe, Ziggy Stardust, Leonard Cohen. 

And then the plague came. 

style guide

 Is it programme or program? Copy editing, copy-editing, or copyediting? Were there too many commas in that last sentence? You'll get different answers depending on which dictionary or style guide you use, which says something deeply troubling about the whole sordid business.

Campbell & Erskine are familiar with standard style guides and referencing systems – blah, blah, blah, APA, Harvard, Marquess of Queensbury. Dab hands with a dictionary, too, if you're the type to allow a mere book to boss you about.

Why not make your own rules? The New Yorker did! Just up and decided one day they'd spell cooperate or perhaps co-operate as coöperate. No one else does that, people told them, but they didn't care. Fly your freak flag high, NewYorker!

Meticulous

The use of decimated to describe anything other than the slaughter of ten percent of a population is a dreadful gaff, and if you make this gaff, you will make some people very happy. For then they will get to tell you about it.

I'm not faulting the motivation, just the lack of ambition. There are so many opportunities for pointing out crimes against etymology. Take meticulous, from Latin meticulosus. It means 'fearful' – not 'sensibly cautious', not 'apprehensive lest I stuff up the spreadsheet', but literally 'full of fear'.Why do so many people boast about being lily-livered, yellow-bellied, cry-babyish, quivering, snivelling, pusillanimous scaredy cats? 

Go forth, nitpickers! Behold the bounty of nits to be picked! I'd try LinkedIn first. 



 

 


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