A great idea poorly reported.

I recently read an article on Yahoo that's actually quite interesting. It's about a woman who takes thrift store clothes, the uglier the better it seems, and makes them into something she can wear. And, she does all this for one dollar per outfit, blogging about it all the while, ala "Julie and Julia", which is referenced in the article.

Here's the link to the article. ttp://green.yahoo.com/blog/guest_bloggers/60/turn-ugly-dresses-into-nice-ones-for-1.html

While I did find the article interesting, I found the writing to be very poor.      

This sentence in particular got me:

"Marisa’s now most of a year into the project,..."

Really? That is just sooo bad.

I looked up the author of the article and while I am really never comfortable critiquing another writer's work unless he/she has specifically asked me to do so, that sentence, and the article as a whole really got me. Especially when the author lists as her credentials a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California.

Well, I guess the undergrad, Masters, and Ph.D programs in Literature and Creative Writing don't include classes on reporting and proper, effective sentence structure.

If I were an editor on this piece, the red pen would have been flying.

Your thoughts?