Each month, as you sit back and enjoy reading your Garden Beet, do you frequently marvel at how free of errors all of the articles are? Perhaps you have considered submitting articles yourself but are intimidated by the flawless written beauty that appears so effortless to other Beet authors. How could your work measure up when, in your attempts, writing errors have been inevitable and ubiquitous?
Actually, errors in writing are common to us all. The brain becomes so involved with the story being related in writing, it fails to see each individual letter. Thus, it beocemes psoibble to raed snetecnces croretcly taht are lodaed wtih splleing msitaeks.
Recognizing this common human foible, the Garden Beet utilizes a team of MG volunteers who proofread monthly submissions for possible errors. Each article is first approved by the JCMGA president and then it passes through a first and a second reading by the editors, before being returned for publishing.
For the past four years, Lisa Brill has expertly held the reigns as the Coordinating Editor. Using her considerable organizational skills, she has smoothly moved the articles from one person in the five-person chain to the next. Considering some months have as many as ten articles, this is no small feat; however, Lisa has handled the task with aplomb.
Now that Lisa has become president of her biking club, she is stepping away from the coordinating position. Fortunately, she will continue to provide us with her skilled editing service. Thank you Lisa!
We invite you to confidently submit articles to The Beet and share your gardening knowledge and experience with your MG family. Just email them to barbaralow@msn.com. You can rest assured that the editors will be here to correct your typos, undangle your participles, convince your subjects and verbs to agree, and wrangle your run-ons. Write on!
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