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Welcome to the Noticing Newbies Newsletter! Our goal is to showcase some of our newest Writing.Com Authors and their items. From poetry and stories to creative polls and interactives, we'll bring you a wide variety of items to enjoy. We will also feature "how to" advice and items that will help to jump start the creation process on Writing.com
We hope all members of the site will take the time to read, rate, review and welcome our new authors. By introducing ourselves, reviewing items and reaching out, we will not only make them feel at home within our community, we just might make new friends!
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Have you noticed the reviewing madness over the last couple of weeks? Wow!
The Mad Mods began it all with a 24 hour reviewing raid.
The Preferred Authors used their Yellow Power and blasted the Mods out of the water with their reviewing raid this past Saturday and Sunday. Good job, PA's!
I mentioned in my Blog the possiblility of the Registered Authors beating us all with their huge numbers, and it looks like they got the same idea. They've a week-end raid coming up that promises to be a wonder to behold. I hope all the newbies visit this forum and add your handle to the other RA's and help them set the first record. I hear the rumbling already. 
Move back and stay out of their way!
Whos' Next? The Registered Users of course.
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Good Question!
There were a couple of good questions in my feedback, so I decided to build this editorial around them.
 Can a peer group help both polished and raw writing equally?
Submitted By: the_little_one
Submitted Comment:"(This is the draft though, not the finished product.)" This is something that every writer (new and old)constantly seems to forget and it results in such a wide level of content quality on the site from raw story ideas to near polished work being posted and reviewed. Is it reasonable to expect our peer group to be equally able to help improve upon such a full gambit of creative development or authors when reviewing?
Yes, I think it's reasonable to expect good help at all stages of writing. The different stages of writing coincides with the different stages of readers and how well they comprehend. Learning to critique is the other side of learning to write. We all know it’s easier to see the problems in someone else’s writing than our own.
It's the writers responsibility to post on review forums that specialize in the type of feedback they want. Writers, Readers, Reviewers. We all need each other to learn the craft.
So, the answer is yes. Just as there are good writers, there are many very good readers.
Rhetorical Questions
Submitted By: Alex Alvarado
Submitted Comment: I had a question about character dialogue with a question. Sometimes in a dialogue between two characters one character can become outraged or tense and say something like "Are you crazy?" but for some reason a habit that always seems to be one pesky little bad habit for me is leave it as an exclamation, so then it becomes "Are you crazy!" Obviously this is wrong but for some reason the original way doesn't highlight much of the boiled temper the character is in. Any feedback on this would be gratly appreciated. Thanks.
Good question! I found one editor in wikipedia that agrees with you, but his opinion is in dispute status because he listed no citation to back up his opinion. All of the grammar books I looked at use a question mark. None of the style guides covered it as far as I could tell.
A rhetorical question typically ends in a question mark (?), but occasionally may end with an exclamation mark (!) or even a period (.) according to some writing style guides[citation needed]. For example: "Are you crazy!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question
You might this helpful too.
When a question constitutes a polite request, it is usually not followed by a question mark. This becomes more true as the request becomes longer and more complex:
* Would everyone in the room who hasn't received an ID card please move to the front of the line.
The answer: Rhetorical questions (asked when an answer is not really expected), are questions and should end with a question mark
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/question.htm
This may be one of those rules that is in the process of evolution, though I saw no evidence of that. To be safe (and correct) use a question mark.
Capitalization, Titles of Deities
What is the proper pronoun form to use to refer to God? I was taught to capitalize the pronoun “He” when “God” was the antecedent. However, I checked a number of standard grammar handbooks and can’t find any information on this point. Have the rules changed?
Chicago Manual of Style lowercases such pronouns, but it’s not wrong to uppercase, especially if you are writing for a religious readership or anyone else who might take lowercasing as a sign of disrespect. In matters of style, in contrast to those of grammar, there are few right or wrong answers. Different houses follow different style guides in order to make their publications consistent.
Source: The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition
So, capitalizing will depend on the audience you’re writing to, and the Style Guide the publisher uses. The important answer to remember is, either way is correct.
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