Sunday, September 19, 2010

Error

It was very hard for me to follow what I was reading and for my attention to be kept. The reading was very long and not to interesting. If you do not know an error when you make it and re read you are most likely not to fix it and then get it wrong. I can relate to the errors in my papers I make a lot of them. I re read what i write but I can not identify my spelling errors and use of commas and so on. To each person an error is something different. Errors are going to happen no matter who you are, it just depends if you are smart enough to catch them or if someone who is checking your paper is. He also talked about other mistakes like spilling coffee or steping on someones toes. those are indeed mistakes, but i never compared them to writing mistakes. Ending up with more errors then started with was another good point to. when you ask X amount of questions you get X amount of answers. I thought it was interesting how people who were spouse to be experienced and writing about how not to make mistakes mad them in there writing ( as i just did here it should be their writing because they are a person but i thought i would point that out instead of changing it.)

It would drive me crazy dealing with all these errors. I dreaded reading this, some points were good but it was just too much about errors. I know you said before this is for teachers but if i was a teacher i would not enjoying reading about mistakes. When i read i just read it, I never really notice peoples mistakes that is why I hate peer editing peoples papers because I am not that much of help to them. I did not like this reading I wish it was more like the guy who sold all his stuff on eBay that kept my attention.

3 comments:

  1. I agree with you in the fact that this reading was longer and more boring than "All my Life for Sale" and I can relate to you in havoing trouble reading something that you are not intrested in.

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  2. I totally agree with you that this reading was not interesting at all and it definitely was hard to keep all the attention on reading it.

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  3. I agree with everything you said completly. I thought it was too much about errors, but then again I guess it was called the Phenomenology of Error. I thought it was really long and boring as well, unfortunately I was only able to get through the first ten or so pages of the article before I gave up.

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