{"id":2371,"date":"2012-01-17T09:26:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T14:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:58","slug":"spelling-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/17\/spelling-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Spelling Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Spelling-Matters\/130283\/?sid=cc&amp;utm_source=cc&amp;utm_medium=en\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/photo_17764_landscape_large.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Looking over the document, however, I noticed three spelling errors on the first page, one of which was in the candidate&#8217;s field of expertise, which she had described as &#8220;complimentary medicine.&#8221; I glanced at my colleagues. Would anyone else mention it? If not, should I?<\/p>\n<p>I hesitated for two reasons: First, I was the only humanist on a committee of psychologists, and I didn&#8217;t want to seem like a nit-picker; and second, I was a newcomer to the institution and unfamiliar with protocol. Still, when everyone else expressed approval of the candidate, I couldn&#8217;t stop myself. In my experience, I said, egregious misspellings in a r\u00c3\u00a9sum\u00c3\u00a9 are grounds for instant rejection. When asked for examples, I pointed to the phrase &#8220;complimentary medicine.&#8221; Two members of the committee still did not see a problem, compelling me to explain the difference between &#8220;complimentary&#8221; and &#8220;complementary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Spelling-Matters\/130283\/?sid=cc&amp;utm_source=cc&amp;utm_medium=en\">Spelling Matters &#8211; The Chronicle Review &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking over the document, however, I noticed three spelling errors on the first page, one of which was in the candidate&#8217;s field of expertise, which she had described as &#8220;complimentary medicine.&#8221; I glanced at my colleagues. Would anyone else mention it? If not, should I? I hesitated for two reasons: First, I was the only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/17\/spelling-matters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spelling Matters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[535,536,534],"class_list":["post-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-career","tag-itmatters","tag-spelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10081,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions\/10081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}