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Just exposing teenagers to writing is valuable. Too many of my children's tests were all short answer and multiple guess choice. I do not feel that sufficient emphasis was placed on constructing sentences and paragraphs. I was asked to help review the essay question on the application for a local college scholarship program and each and every essay was horrible.
As to your offer of a few pages explaining how to structure information, I am interested. I, for one, know that I am not a great writer.
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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I recommend Amazon.com. While writing certainly improves writing skills, having excellent examples to emulate helps a lot. I've read everything I could find in print most of my life, starting with the backs of cereal boxes at about age 4, assisted by parents who valued education. I always won second place in any spelling bee (Janet Stoner was my bane - she never missed a single word), and never scored less than 99% on any English exam; I blame reading.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Ancient grammar police what?
Without a verb, that's a dangling predicate (and I'm sure you don't want your predicate dangling in public).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Without a verb, that's a dangling predicate (and I'm sure you don't want your predicate dangling in public).
Absolutely not thanks for the heads up!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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I want to live in a world wherein I can dangle my predicate wherever and whenever I choose.
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I don't care how many times you say it, it's not going in the sprint.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Better put it away, here comes a grammar cop!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I wonder whether or not I can talk my wife into wearing a sexy grammar cop costume for Halloween...
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The guy in the sexual harassment video I'm watching kind of looks like Tom Selleck.
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It's not sexual harrassment if you look like Tom Selleck.
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TMI, trust me on this.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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MehGerbil wrote: the sexual harassment video I'm watching
So that was the real reason for that off the mark comment of yours, now wasn't it.
You just wanted them to make you watch this video.
Respect!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Is that the new name for "Special Gentlemens Interest"?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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MehGerbil wrote:
The guy in the sexual harassment video I'm watching kind of looks like Tom Selleck. |
Are you watching the guy on guy stuff? Let me know when you get to the other gender.
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Stop projecting.
« There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. » Salvador Dali
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It's probably the same guy who they use for porn films. He must be bisexualharassmentual.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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For my co-workers: It was NOT Ann from accounting that I saw sporting a short, vinyl skirt on MLK Boulevard last night. Furthermore, according to a human resources representative, it is considered rude to ask about that sort of thing so don't do that either.
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That's the HR department response.
The dev team's response is: "pic or it didn't happen!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Reminds me of the photo that circulated around with the caption "Why casual Friday was cancelled" (or something to that effect)
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RJ Hatch wrote: "Why casual Friday was cancelled"
Oh no, Wil ferrell wearing a bandana on SNL. :shudder:
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MehGerbil wrote: For my co-workers: It was NOT Ann from accounting that I saw sporting a short,
vinyl skirt on MLK Boulevard last night.
You are not carefully preparing us for the news that it was you? Please tell me you are not.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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Did you get into trouble with your employer? Are you going to be looking for new job?
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The smell and feel of a shiny new keyboard (in the case, my 4th Logitech Illuminated Keyboard.) I love the light feel of the keys. I have one on my desktop, I often use one with my laptop, there's a third backup that I had to fix the USB connector on, and the cat broke one at 3AM one morning, it decided to shove it off the desk and it must have hit the floor in just the right way. I was sorely tempted to serve the cat the next morning alongside a rasher of bacon!
Marc
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