Sunday, September 19, 2010

Error

As you said this reading would be one of the most difficult ones, I definitely agree. While I was reading I did find some of this hard to understand and I noticed that there was a usage of a lot of words I have never heard of. After reading it I think I may have gotten a point that Williams was trying to get across to people. The one thing I noticed was that he was saying how depending on the error, others are more important over others. There can be many different types of errors and each error has its own significance. For instance spelling errors may not be as important as in using words wrong in a sentence. Another point that I noticed Williams was making was that people tend to use words wrong in sentences. As in the reading it showed how people will use your instead of you're. Each word has a different meaning but people think they have the same meaning. This really stood out to me because I always recognize how people make mistake like that with contractions. While reading I also noticed how numerous people can read the same thing over and over and never notice a mistake and then someone else comes along and notices the mistake right away. I think that this happens because people don't take the necessary time while they are reading and just try to read fast or in other cases it can just get over looked because it's a simple mistake. Although this reading was not very interesting to me it made me realize that an error in writing is just not about grammar or punctuation mistakes it has a whole different meaning.

2 comments:

  1. I agree with what you were saying. People have so many different views on grammatical errors and most of the time I look past them because I mostly skim when I read. I think that papers should be graded based mostly on content rather than grammar.

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  2. I agree it was difficult. most of the things were hard for me to understand and grasp. i agree with the spelling errors are not as important as long as in using wrong words in a sentance. i liked your ending statemeant about reliazing mistakes

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