Friday, December 30, 2011

dagArchives: A quick note on proofreading (27.10.2011)

dagseoul:

dagseoul:

Any one who criticizes your written work because you didn’t proofread well, or you routinely misspell, or you don’t always correctly use apostrophes, or you implement the wrong “there”, or you use a sloppy or non-traditional style: any one who criticizes you for these things, is an asshole.

Writing is not an easy task. For most people, it takes courage to publicly share ideas. I have almost ten years of experience teaching young writers at university, and I tutored writers for several years in and out of writing centers. I don’t care what kind of writer I’ve taught: writing well is a scary thing for the majority of writers. It’s a rare student who was naturally confident.

Stop being petty & privileged fucks about blogging. If you regularly circulate stupid photos about how to properly use there, their, they’re and you, your, you’re and it, its, it’s, you are a fucking douche bag. You aren’t smart. You aren’t cute. You aren’t correct.

Fuck prescriptivism.

[we should all proofread, but come on: discuss people’s ideas not their grammos, punctos and typos.]

I thought I’d reblog this popular post. I wrote it in response to a stupid image that so many bloggers “liked” about common errors in English. I hate smug, self-satisfied, smarty-pants writers. I though it’d be a good companion post to my last about critical thinking and logical fallacies.

Helping a blogger become a better writer takes a commitment to a lengthy conversation and relationship that a quick and rude note about being correct denies. I chalk up the desire to see errors as a desire to be the boss, the desire to patronize, the desire to be first, the desire to be correct. Nothing but contempt for those desires from me.

Posted at 2:30 AM 106 notes Reblogged from dagseoul Tags: douche baggery one column critical thinking

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  1. paintme reblogged this from coregasm
  2. dagseoul reblogged this from dagseoul and added:
    correct a mistake? Contact a blogger as yourself and make a polite point. Don’t send anonymous, “you did this wrong”...
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  7. culturalmarxist reblogged this from philosophy-of-praxis and added:
    not using caps or using ‘yr’...if you’re going...dismiss...
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  12. danslefoxbox reblogged this from anticapitalist and added:
    language can really take a horrible turn for the ideal. What...people aim for is fantastic...
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  15. hookedonsemiotics reblogged this from dagseoul and added:
    “but when someone misspells something and...read it it offends me so much
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  18. sergionavarrete reblogged this from early-onset-of-night and added:
    Any one who criticizes your written work because you didn’t proofread well, or you routinely misspell, or you don’t...
  19. kaash reblogged this from colorblinding and added:
    I don’t know anything about ESL schooling so I’m not going to speak for them/it, but I completely agree that this “bad...
  20. orangotango reblogged this from legallyblindobservations and added:
    Seriously, it isn’t even hard. Being able to express yourself is difficult for some. I get that. People learn the rules...
  21. legallyblindobservations reblogged this from early-onset-of-night and added:
    So basically OP’s argument against expecting grown men and women to be able to write properly is “writing is hard, so...
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