Comments on: Tricky question! Does grammar really matter? https://writegroup.io/tricky-question-grammar-really-matter/ Better business outcomes with clear, effective writing. Thu, 28 Nov 2024 01:08:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Cheryl Stephens https://writegroup.io/tricky-question-grammar-really-matter/#comment-1076 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 03:37:49 +0000 https://writegroup.io/?p=7446#comment-1076 I tend to agree with you about what is most important. I was just thinking today about the need to develop further the gradations in the range of issues. Long ago we were offered the perspective that style guidelines are at one end of a range with grammar at the other.* I am thinking that we could plop Karen Schriver’s evidence-based writing guidelines in the middle of the range.

As a reader, even after I “decide” to engage with a piece, I can get completely turned off my spelling errors, typos, and poor grammar. I think we need to put grammar on a separate plane and view it’s range as: poor, non-standard, standard, and obsequious application of rigid, nonsensical rules.

*I think this was the idea of Terri LeClerck, https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/lecexe

]]> By: William https://writegroup.io/tricky-question-grammar-really-matter/#comment-1075 Thu, 24 Aug 2017 03:34:01 +0000 https://writegroup.io/?p=7446#comment-1075 That’s a nice big picture, but you do realise that bamboo is from the grass family and not the tree family? I read the article, anyway. And I tend to agree. Regards.

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