Have a chance, do i?

[noelchabanel]

Editing takes time, its not an easy task. A former teacher of mines would spend 1-3 hours per paper a student hands in, so that she would correct them and edit them.

:rolleyes:You don't say?

[Switchback]

Yes, the biggest weapon that an officer has, and most important, is the pen. That IS an important document, so lets get that cleared. And if i were an officer, i would take it seriously (dont know why many here gets the assumption i wont), and i will write my best and virtually have no spelling errors.

Like i typed earlier, public forums isnt the same writing for a teacher that dictates your grades and future, or preparing to write for a major publication; rather its a medium to get a few ideas, opinions and options. With that, there will be errors and typos on my part (as many others), bit it is not delibrate. And i am sorry if you can not stand it or read through it without correcting on my mistakes. If you want, you can PM me your email, and ill send you an email with no errors, so that you can enjoy reading it. But i will only do it if there is an incentive.

Don't worry, we get the point. You (supposedly) only write well for things that are important to you.
Those of us with half a brain can easily make the interpretation: GETTING INTO LE IS NOT IMPORTANT TO YOU. OUR RESPONSES ARE NOT IMPORTANT TO YOU. Since that is obviously the case, then WHY ASK THE QUESTIONS IN THE FIRST PLACE.

I have three final things for you to ponder:
1) No one gives a rat's *** what your ethnicity is. No one is going to say, "Oh, don't worry about his sloppy communications skills, people will understand him just because he is Asian American." Please, man! You can't really be that naive, can you!?!?!?!?
2) There is a spell check... but apparently you need incentive to use it. :rolleyes:
3) If you need incentive to write well, consider all your threads getting locked.

[mobrien316]

Editing takes time, its not an easy task.

That is probably true if you usually write like a second grader and only occasionally have to correctly use grammar and punctuation.

However, if you get used to writing correctly so that people can understand you (which is the purpose of communication) it become much less burdensome to look over a paragraph or two and fix the one or two typos you find.

As any veteran officer will tell you, there are going to be "important" cases and "routine" (or plain old "BS") cases. A professional officer will write all his or her reports with the same effort, something your past behavior doesn't indicate you would be willing to do.

It is never a waste of time to speak and write so that your listeners or readers can understand what you want to say.