The deep and comprehensive description of that topology as well as its effect on the netwrok's properties makes it possible to blahblahblah

I get similar chastising by spellcheck for perfectly fine sentences. Spellcheck, like many human spellers, sometimes can't figure out what the subject of the sentence is. In this case, I think the "deep and comprehensive" makes its tiny mind think the subject is plural.

Thanks, Jesse! I'll leave it, then, because there are already many edits as it is, and I think the typos are more urgent than the not-really-mistakes.

(I understand how "search" may be easily interpreted as a verb, but is "network" so much a verb now that it doesn't get to be nounified anymore? Poor thing.)

[Um, this is for my dissertation. I got the comments from the referees. I got them on the day-before-yesterday. Oh, and if I wanna manage to get my degree at this year's ceremony, I have to hand in the already-corrected version by tomorrow. So I'm back at my old computer at the university, and, yes, it took me two nights to remember that this is the computer that can deal with more than 1.7 windows open at once, I don't have any defense regarding my absent-mindedness.]

[Edit: Thanks, Ginger! Oh, I got compliments on the abstract you and Kat (and P-C, IIRC) helped me polish. It's totally thanks to you!]

[One last Edit to wave at msbelle]

[No, one really last Edit, because I have to mock myself for editing my posts so much while trying to edit other manuscripts. Apparently, there's editing in the air, or in the electrons, or something.]

Hee. Nilly is cute.

netwrok's

Maybe this is tripping it up? It should probably be "network's". Otherwise, it looks fine to me. Actually, "netwrok's" might be fine, too. I'm on a lot of cold meds right now.

Liese!

Calli, first of all, I hope the cold meds are working and you'll feel better soon, and second, spell-checkers are shouting at me even when i don't switch the "o" and "r"s of the networks in such sentences, so it's not that, but thanks for catching that typo anyway!

Now, how do I phrase "I corrected the typos" in a sentence that's more formal and longer than four words?

I'm posting from my netbook! Woot!

Nilly, add something about proofreading for grammar and punctuation?

"I proofread and corrected typographical and grammar errors" maybe?

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AP Style: Apostrophe S after a single letter, e.g., "mind your p's and q's." No apostrophe for the rest, so it's IDSs. That looks very weird, but I checked and the patent office uses IDSs.

FYI, Perkins, Chicago 14th agrees (and doesn't use it after singles either).

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