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Comment on Spell everything correctly. by Natalie

Natalie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:31:33 +0000

I believe that text messaging is destroying our youth’s spelling.

Comment on Spell everything correctly. by janet

janet — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:12:51 +0000

Thanks for the encouragemnet.indeed your open up my mind and thouth s about what can be done in as a part of life strugle.

from janet

Comment on Spell everything correctly. by Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:00:07 +0000

Well said Josh, and I’m reading most of these comments about this article and others ragging on their past experiences with other people. Then others rag on those people for their incorrect grammar in their own article. I was laughing most of my way down this page reading the posts and comments.

(p.s. I’m not trying super hard right now to be grammatically correct so yeah fire away at what you got at me.)

Comment on Use a standard font size. by Marilyn L.

Marilyn L. — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:02:42 +0000

Hi, Josh.
Thanks! All of these articles are incredibly helpful. What do you suggest is a good line spacing for a scholarship essay?

Comment on NY Times: Basically, you’ll never save enough to pay for college by Allan Ochen

Allan Ochen — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:57:52 +0000

I need your help in paying for my college please

Comment on Don’t use email smiley faces or any other sort of text-messaging language. by Marjie

Marjie — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:47:58 +0000

Though I have teenaged (and older-and younger) kids and do know a bit about facebook, etc., I think I have just dated myself here, as I had to google “j/k” to find out what it meant! (Those same older kids will get a kick out of that fact!)

Comment on Example A: The length of your essay. by NANCY OSAMONG

NANCY OSAMONG — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:27:48 +0000

Thank you very much for taking your time to give us these tips. In most cases people and especially myself tend to pay more attention on very major details ,the ones that are seen by everybody and we forget about the smaller and yet very important details.Many a time we don’t take time to put ourselves in the shoes of the judges or any other examiners or interviewers in general.This in most cases ends up costing us dearly .As it is said some opportunities come once in a life time.I have never applied for a scholarship before. Despite my age I still think there is a lot of potential within which is unexploited .Again Thanks for the tips and I will consider them while applying for the scholarship

Comment on Spell everything correctly. by Marjie

Marjie — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:15:57 +0000

This set of comments is both hilarious and sad. The English teacher’s misspelling of “its” (how ironic!) must be one of the most common mistakes around, judging from how often I find it in the newspaper, magazines, and books. (A common Ohio-ism is to say “left” when one means “let” or “allowed”. People will say, “I left him go to the movie”, instead of “I let him go to the movie”, and don’t understand that their usage is inaccurate.)

I also, unfortunately, noted a fairly common thread of negative attitudes. It is one thing to correct one’s grammatical or spelling errors, but quite another to insult them deliberately or use crude and demeaning language to describe them. The result is usually the opposite of what was intended.

I honestly don’t know why this particular link was sent to my e-mail, but I’m finding it very enlightening and helpful, especially as my daughter is entering the job market–well, trying, anyway–and beginning her first official college semester in the fall. (She’s taken several PSEO classes as a high schooler.) I am amazed at people’s lack of basic spelling and grammar knowledge. (At the same time, I admit I still have to stop and think about “who” or “whom”.) I appreciate the helpfulness of this site and will definitely have the above mentioned daughter look through some of this material.

One comment regarding Michael’s April 28 lament regarding education. Hmm…and then some people think that we are doing our children a disservice by home educating them.

Comment on Do not, under any circumstances, have your parents write essays, letters, or anything else, on your behalf. by marjie

marjie — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:49:20 +0000

Regarding mary marks’ comments, I understand that a parent who chooses the child’s classes/schedule ends up making more work for the college later when the student changes everything to what he/she really wanted. However, why is it that the parent is allowed–no, welcomed–no, practically commanded–to open up their wallet and empty it into the outstretched hand of the college, but have NO input into the child’s scheduling? I was not allowed in my daughter’s first semester advising appointment. I’m insulted. I believe in the student beginning the appt. with a good idea of what classes/schedule is desired, and the parent hanging back throughout the appt., but a young student often does not know what pertinent questions to ask, or may be hesitant to ask. And in the process of accompanying several of my children through PSEO scheduling dual enrollment), several pertinent issues have been dealt with that would have been ignored if I had not been there. I vote for the presence of the parents if they are involved in the finances.

Comment on If your scholarship application is being sent via email, send it from a neutral or professional-sounding email address. by Kim

Kim — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:34:39 +0000

What about something like adventure.trek@gmail.com? Does it really need to be so rigid as just your name, initials and periods? Just wondering… K