"I can't take it anymore. It seems that the writer of at least one article in practically every newspaper or magazine I pick up has used the word loose where lose is correct. A recent newspaper article about a baseball player reported that he has 'a nerve problem in his right elbow that has caused him to loose muscle mass in his right hand.' I don't know what punishments Word Court is allowed to give out, but please make this one of your most severe." A quote Rory M. Wohl had commented in the article "Word court" by Barbara Wallraff. Most people don't even recognize when their own writings have a misspelled word or two, but that's how our society is today. Frank Solomon has been editing for over 30 years. He has written a three part academic journal "Most common writing mistakes." A spelling errors in a written law, the Africa News Service had enlightened the matter in "Spelling Errors Stall Bill in Senate". Also "Turns out, spelling can make a diffrence - er, difference" by Olivia Barker and Maria Puente will give a dispute on how different people care about a misspelled a word. "Intentional spelling: seven steps to eliminate guessing" seems to be the solution to misspelling problems. With the increasing amount of spelling errors occurring, today's society has a habit of misspelling words, neglecting the misspelled words that they're reading, blame on auto-correct technology, and not fully understanding the consequences against that.
"Word court" by Barbara Wallraff is an article that day-to-day people come and shed light on misspelled words that they have come across while reading an article or the newspaper. Barbara eithers answer a question given, leaves her opinion, and/ or try to find the article to look more into it or f...
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In this day and age, writing is being portrayed through various mediums, such as film and television. Some of those portrayals depict writing as both good and bad depending on the situation that is present. Authors such as, by E. Shelley Reid, Kevin Roozen, and Anne Lamott all write about important writing concepts that are being depicted in films, like Freedom Writers. The film Freedom Writers shows a positive and accurate portrayal of writing in the sense that the writers should have a connection to what they are writing about, writing is a form of communication, and that writing does not have to be perfect the first time.
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Michaela Cullington, a student, wrote a paper “Does Texting Affect Writing?” in 2010 for an English class. The paper is an examination of texting and the belief that it negative effective student’s writing. Cullington goes into detail about textspeak- “language created by these abbreviations”- and their use in formal writings. She organizes the paper in a way that is confusing to understand at first (pg. 1). At the end of the paper, she discusses her finding in her own research which comes to show that texting does not affect writing. But this is contradicting to the information she received from the teachers. The students and the teachers were seeing differences in the use of textspeak in formal writing. Cullington has good support for her
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today’s world. People have pointed out that their ability to spell out words has become difficult
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Pilkington, Andrew CDT I4 CO 16’ Assistance was given to me in fixing my grammatical errors. CDT Pilkington looked over my paper, fixing grammatical mistakes. When he was done, we discussed what was not clear and I fixed those errors within my paper. West Point, NY. 23 March. 2014.
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Angeli, E., Wagner, J., Lawrick, E., Moore, K., Anderson, M., Soderlund, L., & Brizee, A. (2010, May 5). The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL). Retrieved from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
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