Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Thing #7

I guess I should have named this blog "The ramblings of a frustrated writer."  I am going to post this just like it comes of my fingers. I do nt know why ihave somuch problem wiht writing. it i snot just a typing thing. I make the same number fo mistakes and kinds of mistakes weither i write by hand or type. In additionit is very difficult for me to spot my mistakes onse they are down on paper. As a young person I loved to write and actualy think i had some skills in that area. I have note books of poems and short stories that i wrote back in high school. Unfrotunately eve time i shared my wrings with some onw they spent so much time correcting mey mechanical mistakes i do think they ever co to the content of what i was writing so i just stoped. 

when the internet was just getting started I had one of the earilest e-mail accounts, way back in 1991. In thoes days there were not many people with e-mail accounts.  Thei phsics community had a great preseence onthe net. In thoes days tehr was a premimun on quick communicatioin. If you sent a  message that was perfect, in spelling gramer and puncuation otheres would make fun of you because it was clear yo uhad spent to much time on it. There wer no spell checkers then. I fond freedom in thoes listserves and dialogs like i never had befor or since. 

Sorry about all the errors but that is the way I write. I could go back and clean it up but I just dont whant to spend the tome.   Even as it is and I was trying not to I can not tell you how any timees I auatticlay hit the back spact to corect soem thing. I ownder how many of our students are as frustrated as ME.
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  1. Inktrack blogFebruary 11, 2009 at 1:52 PM

    You are a writer because you have ideas and concepts which you develop; however, your typo/spelling. This is a proofreading & editing issue not a writing issue. The concept of teaching the writing process to students should focus on the generation and development of ideas in a recursive manner. When you spend the time proofing and editing which is the last step in the process, your ideas become more precise and focused. The problem is most of us (adults and studetns) do not want to spend the time and effort to clear up what we write.

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  2. techsploringprincipalFebruary 20, 2009 at 5:23 AM

    Okay. That was pretty funny. Thanks for sharing those frustrations. I have Mrs. Barnett in High School to thank for my typing. It was a year spent in typing class with her that has made all the difference in the world for me. (But I do still spend a lot of time hitting the backspace key.)

    This does make me think of that research where all the letters of each word in a passage are jumbled up except the first and last letters of each word are still in the correct place. The amazing thing is that you can still read the passage and understand it completely. It is a little slower, but not much. I guess we can just do the same thing with your typing and we'll all be just fine.

    Thanks for sharing those thoughts.

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  3. techsploringprincipalFebruary 20, 2009 at 5:24 AM

    Question for you, Joel.

    I have put my picture in my profile on BlogSpot, but it doesn't show up in the "Followers" section of your page the way yours does on my blog. Any thoughts about that?

    Thanks for your help.

    Daron

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