by Sandra Elizabeth

Created on: May 01, 2009   Last Updated: May 03, 2009

The execution of run-on sentences is the first that comes to mind because there is nothing more irritating than following one long continual thought and if the time is not taken out to stop and add another sentence every once in a while, the reader (this reader) gets, not only lost in the paragraph but feels somewhat exasperated after finishing the one drawn out long sentence of the article, discouraging them from reading further.

The slaughter of punctuation follows as most people stop when they come to a period question mark and exclamation point or pause when they reach a comma If these crucial marks are missing the reader misses them They miss the parenthesis apostrophes and quotations as well Their lack of presence not only takes away from the articles ambiance it massacres its contents

The butchering of spelling comes next. Supose the riter is portraying a looser. Is this someone whose not so tight? With missspeled wurds, much of the articles meening gets lost in tranzlation. This again (along with punctuation), discurages the reader from continueing further. Why would a reader spend their time reading something that hadn't had (at least) as much time spent on writing it? Spellchecker is available to all, so is proofreading. The only excuse (there's only one) for misspelled words is laziness; a death sentence in itself.

Grammar trails at number four on this gruesome list but it aint nothin' to be sneezed at. If you aint got no grammar schoolin' then you should ax for somebody to learn you some cause without it, you don't have no chance of success. Aint nobody gonna sit and read thru mistake's one right after the other; it just aint good manners. The mistake's of it's writer slowly plunge's the knife deeper and deeper in the heart of the article, making death imminent.

Finally, there is the lack of evidence; which normally hinders a crime scene however, in the case of the writer, the lack thereof proves to be the last nail in the coffin. When the reader is either uninformed or (worse) misinformed, they usually take it personally and in taking it personally, there's little chance of redemption. This means that articles written in the future (well-written articles) may be overlooked, due to the lack of their (and their writer's) previous credibility. In this case, it is the writer's integrity that has expired.

It's unfortunate and unnecessary for a writer/writer's work to have met such an untimely demise, when (with the right defenses and the eagerness to survive) they both could've been saved.

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