Reflections on life, Faith, and anything else that passes through my mind
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Prefict Bloogs
Hvea u evar knowtissed how peepol's blogs nvever seeeem ta have error? Wlle tis is to proove that rong! Hear's ta beeng humen and hving shurt, impurfict blogs!
Don't be upset, but the teacher in me strongly disagrees with your statement. An email to a friend, a memo to a buddy, a note to a pal, in short, any informal writing that is meant to be mostly private is the perfect place for being human and making mistakes. However, I firmly believe that if your writing is to be "published" i.e. viewed by an extended audience via a blog or an essay that will be graded by a teacher, the time for mistakes and errors is past and the time for proofreading is at hand. That said, I have the most difficult time catching my own errors and have "published" errors more times than my red face cares to remember. Nonetheless, I almost always catch a misplaced comma or a misused homonym in the writing of others and it inevitably leaves me questioning the writer's overall ideas. That said, I just know I'll press the publish button here only to find I have committed any number of grammatical and spelling errors.
Don't be upset, but the teacher in me strongly disagrees with your statement. An email to a friend, a memo to a buddy, a note to a pal, in short, any informal writing that is meant to be mostly private is the perfect place for being human and making mistakes. However, I firmly believe that if your writing is to be "published" i.e. viewed by an extended audience via a blog or an essay that will be graded by a teacher, the time for mistakes and errors is past and the time for proofreading is at hand. That said, I have the most difficult time catching my own errors and have "published" errors more times than my red face cares to remember. Nonetheless, I almost always catch a misplaced comma or a misused homonym in the writing of others and it inevitably leaves me questioning the writer's overall ideas. That said, I just know I'll press the publish button here only to find I have committed any number of grammatical and spelling errors.
ReplyDeleteHa ha;) I know, I notice it in my own like crazy.
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