"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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Writing correctly is something that many people find hard to do! I know this, because I use to feel the same way. I have had many English classes in my time, where teachers would sit next to me, and correct my errors sentence by sentence as I went along. All the while asking me if I understood what why what I did was wrong. I remember saying that I understood, but I really didn't. That was something that I didn't like at the time, but I am now very appreciative of the fact that someone was there. With today's kids, most teachers don't take that needed time and help them to get on track with their writing. Because of this, I find that both Strunk and White, The Elements of Style, and Williams, Style: Toward Clarity and Grace to be very helpful. After reading them, I know that they can both be used as "handy" reference tools for today's writers.
In the essay How to Say Nothing in 500 words written by Paul Mchenry Roberts he touches on different errors in writings. Some are easily thought of and one really made me think.
Significant spelling, grammatical, punctuation, and/or capitalization errors were noted and/or APA was not followed closely.
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Writing Well, by Donald Hall, is an amazingly interesting textbook. I cannot remember reading an instructional manual with such brilliant imagery, flowing style, and amazing concepts. This is what education should be – interesting, provocative, and natural. However, in the first eleven pages of the text, I do not agree with two of the three analyses of Hall's examples.
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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Technologies like word prediction can compare a typed word with a word in the dictionary list and recognize a mismatch as a misspelled word. This helps the writers who unconsciously reorder the letters a lot while typing. It can also assist a writer in guessing the spelling of a word.
The use of technology has led more people getting information from blog, which has been criticized by many journalists who doubt the accuracy of the information; and also in this computer age, the use of print dictionaries is fast nose-diving towards oblivion, because every word that is needed is found online. The words are very precise with their examples and one does not need an editor to know what a word means because you can easily look them up online. Students have also learned to understand that they write to the audience and therefore, have to be more creative, persuasive and organizing in their writing in order to get their point across to the audience. It is believed that the previous generation rarely put up a paragraph of their own and most students then, needed an interview before they were able to write something. But with the continuous in class writing in school and online, it has made students become adept in writing.
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In regards to Language Arts education, the prominence of word processors has helped to ease the work of editing and rewriting. Built in spelling ...