Monday, September 20, 2010
Errors
It interested me when Williams' mentioned his employers saying things like "if the teacher said so" What i think happened was, his employer was saying how something was only right or wrong depending on the teacher who sees it. This makes it seem like sometimes errors will only matter depending on who is viewing it. I feel like this is true because in high school you could have a teacher one year who would rip apart papers for tiny grammar and spelling mistakes and other teachers who overlook them completely. Williams then goes on to say that there is a great variation of definition of error. I think he means that some errors are seen as more of a big deal compared to others. So certain people will see sentence structure as the most important thing, and others view punctuation as important. Williams' formulas and rules for noticing errors and which are the most disrupting to the written text were very confusing and i literally have no idea where he was going with that. But i think his point about the game is that writers and grammarians honestly can not agree on errors, and fixing them. The game would be some sort of a competition to find errors in each other's work that maybe the writer didn't recognize or think of as a serious mistake. Not really sure though...
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>>This makes it seem like sometimes errors will only matter depending on who is viewing it. I feel like this is true because in high school you could have a teacher one year who would rip apart papers for tiny grammar and spelling mistakes and other teachers who overlook them completely.<<
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely - good example.
The game is something more, though...