Another editor co-signing the plea for engineers and scientists to take writing courses.
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Zenkitty - Apr 25, 2017 4:04:09 pm PDT #10358 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Dana - Apr 25, 2017 4:12:08 pm PDT #10359 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Another editor co-signing the plea for engineers and scientists to take writing courses.
How about a class called "Editors: Not Your Slaves, Not Your Enemies"?
Katerina Bee - Apr 25, 2017 4:20:01 pm PDT #10360 of 30002
Herding cats for fun
Honor thy Copy Editor, who can make drunken scribbling into faultless byline-worthy prose in just one afternoon.
Amy - Apr 25, 2017 4:41:03 pm PDT #10361 of 30002
Because books.
Everybody should take writing courses! Just basic grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling for communication. I got a business email the other day in which someone said she would "defiantly let you know" when something was going to happen.
Steph L. - Apr 25, 2017 4:49:27 pm PDT #10362 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
And that's the kind of thing where spell-check won't save your ass.
Laura - Apr 25, 2017 4:50:12 pm PDT #10363 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
My customer base is doctors. Their grammar is as impressive as their hand writing. The emails I get are cringe worthy.
Amy - Apr 25, 2017 4:51:32 pm PDT #10364 of 30002
Because books.
Exactly, Tep.
sarameg - Apr 25, 2017 4:57:54 pm PDT #10365 of 30002
Asparagus for dinner. Expected results (I have no idea how my mom doesn't know this. She loves asparagus.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 25, 2017 5:22:44 pm PDT #10366 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Everybody should take writing courses! Just basic grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling for communication.
Is a basic English class that includes paper-writing techniques not a requirement at most universities? It definitely was at mine. (I tested out of the basics, but then I was an English minor and jumped directly into willingly writing papers on Greek Mythology and Dante's Inferno...)
-t - Apr 25, 2017 6:23:53 pm PDT #10367 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I went to a technical college. We had a required freshman class called Rhetoric that was basically a composition class with no option to test out of it, a Literature requirement (that could be gotten around with music courses), minimum requirements in an array of Humanities and had to complete a major paper in our chosen minor. Not to mention lab reports and the Senior Project write-ups that if nothing else taught us all to use LaTex to make our formulas readable.
All well and good, but one of the reasons I took the math route rather than engineering (which in hindsight I was probably more suited to) is that it gave me more room in my schedule to take non-required electives. I ended up with enough course credits for minors in Lit and Religion but officially was a Psych minor, and as an Engineer there's no way I could have taken all of those on top of the degree requirements.