Week Three

I think that the 11^th secret to writing well is walking away.  Get some distance between you and your work.  After staring at a paper for hours on end a little distance is a good thing.  Coming back to a project lets you determine how well constructed your thoughts truly are on paper.  Some things to keep in mind are: 1.Did you just word vomit a paper out? 2. Does your work clearly put into words what you are actually meaning? Or does it just sound good? 3. What do you want to change about your paper if anything?  These are a few things that I like to go over once I have given myself some space to clear my mind and take a good look at my paper. 

I found a grammatical error on one of our assignments this week, just a small misspelling of the word corrections.  It was in the grammar checkup assignment, question 12 I believe.  It was spelled with an extra “s”. 

Second was in a group text among family members, which is hard to cite, but my sister was responding to my niece and incorrectly used your instead of you’re.  I had to fight the urge to correct it, it is one of those that I catch often, however my niece got to it before I could.

My third grammar error was found when putting up our Halloween decorations for my mom and dad.  They recently got some new storage containers in their house and my dad wrote the Halloween box “hallowing”.  He grew up in the age of phonetic spelling and never cared to learn how to spell correctly.  I got a kick out of it.