Please Check The Spelling of Your Title Before Submitting
The title of your article is your initial selling point. It attracts readers. Why lose potential readers by not caring enough about spelling your title correctly?
Writers write for a number of reasons. Some prefer to write for personal reasons, keeping what they write carefully guarded, for their eyes only. I am presuming that the reason writers submit their writing to online sites such as Triond is because they want to share it with others. Even if money is the motivation for writing, as it is for many, that still relies on others clicking on to their articles and reading their work.
However, lately I have been wondering why some people submit their work when it is obvious they don’t care about whether or not that work is read. I say this because an increasing number of articles are being published where the writers have not bothered to check the spelling of their titles.
Okay, I am a teacher, and incorrect spelling really upsets me. When we type fast it is quite common to make typing or spelling errors. I’ve already corrected three in this paragraph so far. But, errors can easily be corrected, thanks to Triond’s spelling editor. If you’re not sure where that is, it’s the little button with a blue tick and the letters ABC immediately above where you write the body of your article.
I believe we are privileged to call ourselves writers. We are lucky to have sites such as Triond that will willingly publish our work, no matter what the quality is. But, I am wondering if Triond is doing us a disservice. Some sites will not publish work until it has been edited and errors corrected. Maybe Triond should make sure the articles published here have been proofread and corrected.
Your title is your selling point. It attracts readers enough for them to click on to your article. Why be lazy and submit an article in haste before you’ve checked the spelling of at least the title. To me that just doesn’t make sense. It is telling the world two things. One, that you are not proficient in the English language and the other is that you don’t care much about the accuracy of your work. Both reasons suggest that if you can’t get the title right the work that follows may well be of a similar quality. And most readers prefer to read a well written article.
Now for my confession. Very rarely do I click on to an article if the title is either incorrectly spelled or is grammatically incorrect. I used to, hoping that the title was a misleading advertisement for something I was interested in reading. This is seldom the case. If the title is poorly written, it quite often follows that so is the rest of the article.
So, please fellow writers, show us you care about your work. Take the time to edit your work before submitting it. And, above all things, please ensure your title is correctly written. Otherwise you may find you are losing readers.
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March 22nd, 2011 at 2:11 am
Your article came just as I was correcting the title of an article I had just submitted. I agree, it is really important. There are so many things to read that the title is the first filter.
March 22nd, 2011 at 2:25 am
I know it happened to me once wrongly spelt title thanks for the write up
March 22nd, 2011 at 3:02 am
Bad spelling irritates me too – I’m the only one allowed to spell incorrectly! It also entertains me though which is why I enjoy teaching English to foreigners.
March 22nd, 2011 at 3:13 am
I agree with you, we have a responsibility to our readers and to the site as well. If Triond can’t be very strict with the grammar or spelling, the writer himself/herself, should do the checking. Good thing is that we can always fix our articles right after submission.
March 22nd, 2011 at 3:19 am
I agree with you, Val. There do seem to be rather a lot of articles where the spelling mistakes shout out at you.
March 22nd, 2011 at 3:39 am
Guilty!
March 22nd, 2011 at 3:41 am
I too have pondered why and how some people continue to submit stories to Triond. It seems as though some just want to bang out one piece after another and are not serious about the content of their articles. Unfortunately, a lack of professionalism ultimately brings down the credibility of the entire Triond site.I think we all (myself included) need to be more vigilant with the content we submit.
March 22nd, 2011 at 4:05 am
It is probably forgivable to have little errors in the article body, but to have a poorly written title is disastrous. It’s like trying to sell a product with some damage on the packaging, a dent or something. You can tell people the product inside is very much intact but they still wouldn’t buy it. The title is the first selling point, much like the packaging which the customer sees first.
March 22nd, 2011 at 4:18 am
Well done. I do that when I was still starting up submitting my contents to Triond.
March 22nd, 2011 at 4:32 am
Not only the title but the whole article should be spell-checked before submission. There is a facility within the body of text that we all have to edit which allows for this.
March 22nd, 2011 at 4:42 am
Its a good point. I get critism about my spelling and grammar constantly and I correct it. For some people such as me spelling and grammar have never come easy for me going back to school days. Then have a 30 year gap from writing anything but birthday cards and there will be mistakes! I use the spell check on Microsoft as I write on a word document then copy and paste it the the submit page on Triond. I read some writers work and it is word pefect as it should be but its as boring as hell! two paragraphs in I’m done with it! You must get the look of your work as best as possible but without imagination what is the point of writing? How many people get a cook book and open it and copy a recipe and publish it? might be spelt properly but what a waste or every ones time! Great article, LB
March 22nd, 2011 at 4:53 am
Guilty of lots of spell errors even my spell check must be dyslexic ha ha if it was me a million apologies Val cheers
March 22nd, 2011 at 5:12 am
a good point, thanks 4 sharing.-
March 22nd, 2011 at 5:16 am
A very good advice for fellow writers. Thanks.
March 22nd, 2011 at 7:48 am
Agreed! If the title is incorrectly spelled it leads me to wonder about the quality of the rest of the article. The title is the most important thing, initially, in anyone’s work. It leads you to the article. But … it is easy to be in too much of a rush and for the Triond Fairies to muck it all up without your help lol.
March 22nd, 2011 at 7:54 am
It had happened to me, Valz. Very recently, I wrote an article and in a rush, I submitted it without checking for spellings as I didn’t have Internet and was working from a browsing center. Anyways, that is not an excuse for a spelling mistake.
March 22nd, 2011 at 8:30 am
I have to agree with you. I don’t write under Triond submit but in WordPerfect, here I can easily proofread and correct any errors. I then copy and paste it to submit and recheck it again there. Yes a poorly written title will stop someone from reading your post. You need a good title, a hook to bring your reader into the story and a good ending. I have the most problems with the ending.
March 22nd, 2011 at 8:35 am
Very useful motivational article. I too usually ignore articles with misspelled titles. Hopefully, at least some of those not caring will read it and change their ways.
March 22nd, 2011 at 10:38 am
Excellent article! Back in the “old days” I never wrote anything without a dictionary beside me. Especially when I wrote notes home to parents – some of them would gleefully circle misspelled words with a red pen and send the note back. I don’t blame them, your child’s teacher should be able to spell.”These kids today”
with spell check and grammar check have no excuse!
The title is especially important not only because it is what must attract the reader, but also because at Triond it is very hard to change the title for some reason – the fix feature often won’t work for the title.
March 22nd, 2011 at 1:07 pm
I think sometimes – for me anyhow – I often spell a word right but its the wrong word, for example right now I am writing about chickens -but keep typing the word heat lamb instead of heat lamp and have to be really careful
March 22nd, 2011 at 3:28 pm
I know that feeling, Brenda! My first sentence above managed to escape into publication initially with the sentence reading The title of your article is your initial spelling point. Glad I managed to notice and fix it before anyone commented.
March 23rd, 2011 at 12:53 am
Thanks fr the reminder Val, now I should be very careful about spelling.
March 23rd, 2011 at 8:54 am
You are right, Val, there may be error in the contents, but there are spell check, should be very obvious if one makes error, unless the author thinks that the spelling is correct without knowing, the spell check is it applicable to title also? I ever made mistakes in the title after submission, and it took some time to be amended, but the mistakes were not spelling mistakes but the whole word itself which spell check cannot detect. However, I always check thoroughly before submission, but I always re-phrase the wordings after submission, to make them sound more touching as sometimes the way the words phrased play a part in captivating readers.
March 23rd, 2011 at 11:02 am
If the title is not spelled correctly, I tend to disregard the article. Nice job on this.
March 25th, 2011 at 1:26 pm
I must agree. Most of my articles are written in a word processor first to avoid such mistakes.
March 25th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
i agree! moreover, readers will take note of those writers who have articles with bad grammar or misspelled words, and they won’t care reading their works again next time…
March 26th, 2011 at 1:04 am
Sometimes if the title is spelled wrong I go to the article just to comment on how bad their spelling is. But really all I’m doing is making them more money! Oh what a tangled web we weave!
March 28th, 2011 at 2:18 am
I couldn’t agree more.. the moment I saw some words misspelled on articles, I would immediately navigate away from that page… so sad.