According to Kyle Wiens, a person must be able to know proper grammar in order to stock shelves or labeling parts (Wiens, p. 500). Wiens is a businessman and writer who is also the founder of iFixit and Dozuki (Wiens, p. 499). He provides an abundance of claims stating why he doesn’t hire people with bad grammar. These claims include good grammar makes a good business and reduces overall mistakes at the workplace (p.500). While reading this essay, I wasn’t moved by his statements and claims that job-seekers must be proficient in grammar for their resume to be a valid applicant. By simply relating his opinions to statistical and factual information, he could’ve easily made me believe he is a credible source. Wiens lacks a credible stance in …show more content…
499) Immediately, the inappropriate use of his language distances me from continuing to read. The tone of this statement comes off as one-sided and stubborn. Rather than approaching the statement in a scholarly fact, Wiens down plays the intelligence of his work with an ignorant remark. Also, when Wiens mentioned stocking shelves requires grammar proficiency, which is not true in most cases. Again, he doesn’t have creditable information to back up his claim. To make his statement credible, Wiens should have included a study based off of various shelf stocking hiring processes. This hiring process could have included what specific skill set or educational background a company requires their employees to obtain. Additionally, this study could have been collaborated with top warehouse companies in the United States with quotes and numerical information. Wiens said, “I’ve found that people who make fewer mistakes on a grammar test also make fewer mistakes when they are doing something completely unrelated to writing- like stocking shelves or labeling parts.” (p. 499) Additionally, my best friend’s dad, Justin, is an immigrant from Cambodia who has trouble with English grammar. He immigrated to the United States on June of 1992. Justin has been working at an inventory warehouse for nearly nine years. Sine working at the warehouse, he learned to verbally communicate in English and is coherent to the language. However, he lacks an understanding of written English grammar. Although, for Justin’s specific job title, he doesn’t need to distinguish the difference between to and too. The relevance of this example displays the unimportance of the English grammar in certain jobs. Otherwise, Justin would have been terminated within the first few months on the job for continuing to make costly mistakes. Additionally, my second job was a sales associate at a boutique and the
Children were taught to speak in a proper manner and because they were taught to speak correctly they wrote in a proper way as well. As technology evolved and texting came more profound grammar was becoming a lost art. In Dana Goldstein’s article ,‘Why Kids Can’t Write’, she talks about what teachers are doing about grammar. The teachers are not doing much about the grammar issue in schools.
In Jay Heinrichs, “Thank You for Arguing”, the Eddie Haskell Ploy was a rhetorical virtue that stuck out and closely connected to me. When unsure if you will win an argument, the Eddie Haskell Ploy explains, “…preempt your opponent by taking his side” (Heinrichs 65). This not only makes you look like you knew what you were doing all along, but it makes the opposing side respect you more and leave them feeling more cared about and confident in their side. For example, after Jay Heinrich’s daughter used this sly ploy, he stated, “Even though I saw through the ruse, I admired it. Her virtue went way up in my eyes” (Heinrichs 64). This ploy is a classic move that my siblings and I would always pull on our parents. For instance, when I knew asking
In the article by Kyle Wein “I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why.” explains reasons as to why the owner of a business only hires educated, employees. If someone cannot tell the difference between simple words such as there, their, and they’re, the manager will not hire that applicant. That’s not the only thing Wein looks for in an employee. He is looking for smart, educated, employees who use good grammar. “Yes, language is constantly changing, but that doesn’t make grammar unimportant. Good grammar is credibility, especially on the internet.” Grammar is important no matter what the job is. According to the author, without good use of grammar you will not have a job. Without a job you will have no money, no satisfaction, and/or
Suzanne Lucas knows we are smart enough to run our paper through a spell check. There are so many spell checkers in this era, that there is no excuse in having such small grammars errors that even a third grader should know not to make. We are adults now, we need to know that every sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a period. The only reason a person can be making this type of error is when they do not care about getting their point across. The example provided by Lucas made me focus in his/her errors rather than me focusing on the information he/she was providing. I had to read it twice to focus on what he was saying, not because I could not understand but because I was in shock of his errors. The way he delivers the letter,
In the article "Why Good English is Good For You," by John Simon, the intended audience is English speaking Americans. Simon stresses the importance of keeping good English alive, and spreading it. He explains how the influence of adults can greatly impact the future of the upcoming generations. Simon makes it clear to the audience, which consists of young adults, adults, and professionals, that language is a daily necessity that should not be used in a way that makes Americans appear illiterate. Simon uses many rhetorical devices such as analogies, personification, asyndeton, and anaphoras to demonstrate the importance of utilizing English in a proper manner. Those who use English must train themselves to exert the language in the correct
Williams claims that errors of grammar and usage are the most complex topics, which have been easily misunderstood by many people in our world today. Whether the grammar has to do specifically with literature or not, it has always obtained errors. William notably supports his claim by giving specific examples of professionals who have stated grammatical errors according to what they think is “right.” William also provided some personal experience and textual evidence to express credibility and accuracy of his argument. William’s argument is effective because the main points he focused on with evidence were powerful and stood out to the audience. The real life examples that William demonstrated to the audience gave a strong base to his argument because he showed how grammar errors actually exist in our society. He made it evident that the audience had their eyes opened to topic that had been ignored in the past. William achieved his argument by providing real life situations and by looking at various researches that analyzed the existence of errors in grammar. However, the ways that William could have made his argument more effective is by not having comments that seemed too self- indulgencing. Also he could have taken out evidence like the graphs that didn’t make
Pilkington, Andrew CDT I4 CO 16’ Assistance was given to me in fixing my grammatical errors. CDT Pilkington looked over my paper, fixing grammatical mistakes. When he was done, we discussed what was not clear and I fixed those errors within my paper. West Point, NY. 23 March. 2014.
Quickly my untrained eyes begin to notice several imperfections in this attempt yet I am unskilled and helpless to correct them. The intricacies and technical concepts of my native language seem foreign. I’ve always felt more secure with the seemingly definitive results associated with Math and Science. Many of English’s intricate concepts, I have studied in the past, appear too subjective for my taste. Was the material not presented in a clear way for my brain to comprehend? I often find myself relying on software to aid
This essay opens the minds of people to see that perfect writing is not always the perfect thing. Murray’s essay would interest almost every person who has been a student and taken an English class. Most
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After reading the two articles and watching the videos, I have learned that grammar can have a huge impact on the way people see you. With people using so much social media, the way people have started to talk to each other is to try and convey a message as quick as possible with as little words as possible. People forgot that when they go into a professional setting that have to take the time to think about what they say before they say it, unlike with their friends you will not have a second chance if you accidentally mess something up. I have also learned that the rules change as the times do, and something that people would do thirty years ago may not really apply for today, especially since news words are constantly being added to the
But halfway through the 20th Century, research on the value of grammar education began to surface and there was no strong correlation between the teaching of grammar and a student’s ability to avoid usage errors, the once strict education structure was dropped. With traditional techniques abandoned, the vacuum was filled with new approaches. Structural linguistics, based around the importance of the way words form sentences, began to take the place of its predecessor but was then quickly challenged by transformational grammar, a more abstract concept than the prior two. With arguments from the structural and transformational side both pushing that the other was unscientific, the importance of grammar was abandoned. Though schools are beginning to reintroduce grammar in education, there has been a firm separation between learning grammar and learning usage.
Shellenbarger, S. (2012, June 20). Grammar Gaffes Invade the Office in an Age of Informal Email, Texting and Twitter. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from http://online.wsj.com
The purpose of this chapter is to provide an extensive review of literature on theory of writing, paragraph, grammar, errors, grammatical errors, causes of grammatical errors and error correction.
Johnson, Edward D. The Handbook of Good English. New York: Facts on File Publications, 1982