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Composition 101
We could debate whether this point is a technology failure or a failure of the chair to keyboard interface, but I grow weary of reading articles (like this one) in which I must repeatedly stop, go back and try to decide what the author might have intended to say.
There is a definite difference between a site and a sight. Even though they sound alike, the meanings and usages are different. Rewriting a sentence to more accurately express yourself is fine, but don't leave both the preferred phrase and the one that you rejected, so the reader has to try to divine what you intended to say.
Overlooked/missing prepositions and other words make the process of reading more painful than it should have to be in a professional context.
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