Writing is a craft, and as with any craft it has to be learned. Or should that be learnt’? Which is the correct spelling? Writing is all about using the correct words in the correct order. So far, we have concentrated on the mechanics of achieving the right word order in a sentence. Now, however, we want to turn to getting the words themselves right.
There are several aspects to this. One is finding the right tone. There is, in Itself, nothing wrong with phrases such as well hard, but it would probably Strike a rather jarring note in a formal essay if you wrote that Julius Caesar was well hard, a diamond geezer. The more fundamental difficulty, however, is that of knowing, or not knowing, how to spell words. In some ways this is becoming less of a problem in students’ work because they can confirm their spelling on a computer’s spell-check. This is obviously a useful tool and can be used interactively to improve Spelling in addition to correcting inaccurate word-processing. There is, however, also a negative side to relying on a computer, especially for spelling quite common words, since it is these that are... Read more...
