In a few places the book is also marred by sloppy writing.

No excuses for sloppy writing.

What sloppy writing and rubbish journalism, why have you even done a story on this?

This powerful and fascinating story is somewhat marred by sloppy writing and careless editing, especially in the first half of the book.

We also know that each of these truisms can be an excuse for sloppy writing.

I do however realize this is probably not so much ignorance as sloppy writing.

More careful editing would have smoothed out convoluted sentences and sloppy writing.

Alfon was at times charged with sloppy writing and suspected of writing for money.

Somehow I don't think the first two transgressions are quite in the same league as the third; such sloppy writing makes her argument easily dismissible.

It had the kind of flaws one might expect in an undergraduate paper: sloppy writing, misleading analysis, ambiguous definitions and unsupported conclusions.