Good Writing Skills Actually Helps

14 Jun

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You may be laughing after you read the title. I wouldn’t blame you, I chuckled a little when I thought of it. If you’re a regular reader of this site for a long time you know that I have made at least 3 spelling mistakes or grammatical errors in a lot of my posts in the past. Since I published almost 500 posts ever since I started this blog, I just don’t have the time to go back and correct them. The reason I made the writing errors was because I didn’t take the time to read over my articles over and over again like I should. I got tired of writing so I pressed the published button a bit too soon.

Luckily another blogger has stepped in to help. Michelle G., an English teacher, and the author of A Calm Sea blog stepped in to contribute to this blog not too long ago. In return she wanted a link to her blog in the sponsored link section. Her offer was too good to pass up, so I added her site to the sponsored links and made her DesiNotes.com’s new editor; yay, let’s party.

Anyways, based on my own experiences I know that I wouldn’t stay on a blog or subscribe to a blog if the author cannot write properly. Blogging is all about communication and writing is just another way of communicating. If you can’t write then you can’t communicate.

If you have trouble writing then don’t get your hopes down, don’t stray away from blogging, you can still blog. Believe it or not, the best way to improve your writing skills is reading. Go around and read other people’s blogs, it’ll help you improve your grammatical skills and spelling.

Also, when blogging use the latest version of Mozilla Firefox. Whenever I blog nowadays, I blog with Firefox, because it places a red line underneath any misspelled word that I type. I’m no spelling whiz, but that built-in feature on Firefox has helped me correct so many spelling mistakes.

Also, check out my about me page, I’ve added new fun content to it for my new readers. Tell me what you think.

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12 Responses

Ken Xu

June 14th, 2007 at 8:13 pm

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Ha-ha-ha! I still get a lot of grammatical error while my typos’ fixed by firefox. I can’t help it because english is not my primary language. Well, I’ll try hard enough to see how’s my improvement next 3 months!

Btw, Nice Post! It reminded me my past months post. Looks Ugly!
Michelle

June 14th, 2007 at 9:54 pm

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Thanks for the props, Sunny. About the party…you bring the beer, and I’ll bring the onion dip.
MissNice

June 14th, 2007 at 10:23 pm

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Love the new about me section! Awesome, and yes its true, good grammer is a plus when reading other people’s blogs.
Desty

June 14th, 2007 at 10:40 pm

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I get in the same boat. I’ve gone over the post several times, transfered from MS Word to Wordpad and copied over to blogger. By that time I’m just ready for the thing to be done and over with. I publish, then go back and see several mistakes! I have to fix them! It bugs the crap out of me.

BTW, english isn’t my 1st language either, I’m Southern
Travis

June 15th, 2007 at 2:17 am

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I’m a right clicka, I’m an iBook flippa
haha that video was only good for like a minute, noicee
A Tentative Personal Finance Blog

June 15th, 2007 at 7:02 am

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Thanks for the comments on my blog. Whenever I write a post, I think I go over it half a dozen times before I publish it. On top of that, I let it sit over night or sometimes a few days before I return to it again. It helps me look at it with fresh eyes. I’m surprised that even after all that, I STILL have errors once in a while.
Sunny

June 15th, 2007 at 8:34 am

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@Ken: No matter. most of the time we always make at least one error. Don’t worry, you’re not alone, English wasn’t my first language either.

@Michelle: Lolz, how about root beer?

@MissNice: Thanks, I thought the new about me page could help get some readers to be more interested to this blog.

@Desty: Lolz, Southern USA?

@Travis: Lolz, yeah that’s a catchy line.

@Finance Blog: No problem. You’re actually doing that right, fresh eyes do help. But don’t worry everyone makes errors.
Alwitt

June 15th, 2007 at 8:26 pm

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You said that when blogging you use the latest version of Mozilla Firefox because it places a red line underneath any misspelled word that you type. But there must be some kind of add-ons that you’ve installed to let you create/edit a new post, right? May I know what add-ons are you using?
Sunny

June 15th, 2007 at 8:39 pm

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@Alwitt: No, there are no add ons. I don’t directly post/edit any articles from Firefox. I actually log on to my WordPress admin panel and edit/post my articles.
Desty

June 15th, 2007 at 9:44 pm

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Yeah, I’m a Southerner from the USA. Born and raised in Kentucky. If you’ve ever heard Jeff Foxworthy talk about red-necks, well, around here we generally nod and agree “yep, I do that.”

I finally broke down and got my own domain and server. I’m fighting with wordpress to try and get things how I want them. Problem I’m running into is that you can’t copy and paste HTML for buttons or widgets anymore, or if you can, I haven’t figured that out yet. Plus I’m trying to find the theme that is just right.
Matt

June 16th, 2007 at 9:14 am

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Yes it’s so true. And so unbelievable to read blogs that don’t even use capital letters at the start of sentences. If I see a blog like that I leave it straight away.
Sunny

June 16th, 2007 at 11:56 am

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@Desty: That’s cool, I’ve lived in Georgia almost all of my life so I’m as Southern as you are. And yeah, choosing the right WordPress theme requires A LOT of searching.

@Matt: Lolz, I guess the’re small personal blogs to have errors at that degree.