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Keith True · 06-16-2024, 10:43 AM

I had a writing instructor years ago that would tell us a story about his early years.He started as a reporter for a newspaper,and everybody around would ride him hard about the smallest mistakes.He was about to quit,when his boss sat him down for a talk.He was told that if he was going to write articles for consumption by the general public,they HAD to be correct in every way.Punctuation,grammar,spelling,syntax,sentence structure,nuances,focus,etc.A reader of his stories should NEVER,EVER,read a story with anything incorrect in it.He was told,you are a schoolteacher,whether you like it or not,and readers are going to take whatever you write as correct.Do not affix incorrectness in their minds. He took that advice to heart,and preached it to his students when he took up teaching after becoming too disabled to report in the field.He said putting out incorrectness to the general public should not be allowed to stand.I just watched a video on how to wind the string on a weed whacker,I think that one may have been made as a joke.Not ONE thing in it was correct.

06-16-2024, 10:43 AM	#11
Keith True Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Epping N.H. Posts: 3,423	Re: Watching YouTube videos pertaining to Model-A repair or restoration... I had a writing instructor years ago that would tell us a story about his early years.He started as a reporter for a newspaper,and everybody around would ride him hard about the smallest mistakes.He was about to quit,when his boss sat him down for a talk.He was told that if he was going to write articles for consumption by the general public,they HAD to be correct in every way.Punctuation,grammar,spelling,syntax,sentence structure,nuances,focus,etc.A reader of his stories should NEVER,EVER,read a story with anything incorrect in it.He was told,you are a schoolteacher,whether you like it or not,and readers are going to take whatever you write as correct.Do not affix incorrectness in their minds. He took that advice to heart,and preached it to his students when he took up teaching after becoming too disabled to report in the field.He said putting out incorrectness to the general public should not be allowed to stand.I just watched a video on how to wind the string on a weed whacker,I think that one may have been made as a joke.Not ONE thing in it was correct.