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"?
Buffy: I was regrouping. Spike: You were about to be regrouped into separate piles.
'Potential'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Apr 25, 2017 4:12:08 pm PDT #10359 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
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.
Beverly - Apr 25, 2017 7:24:22 pm PDT #10368 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'm so sorry about Java the cat, Javacat. I'm glad you had each other for two decades--that's a major achievement. May your memories give you solace.