by Karim Jessa

Created on: August 18, 2011   Last Updated: August 31, 2011

The Internet is to be put under surveillance.

Ramana, the passionate writer who has recently achieved renown through his two influential articles, "Conversation with a Writer" and "Sloppy Writing," announced that he will set up a Sloppy Writing Patrol. His territory? The internet, where else?

The aim is to spotlight the nagging bad habits of careless writers on the Internet. His view is that it is negligence and not lack of knowledge which is the cause of sloppy writing.

All it takes is to reread what you've written. You'll be amazed how many glaring typos will come to your attention. A few extra minutes makes all the difference between a sloppy article and a well-written one.

In the first bulletin of Ramana's Patrol there are listed some items requiring attention. He notes, though, that he has already noticed some improvement since the publication of his Sloppy Writing. He expressed great delight at the progress. (Was this meant as a joke?)

The following are excerpts from the first bulletin of the Ramana Sloppy Writing Patrol.

"Tips for getting healthy eyes, diet for getting healthy eyes: How to get beautiful and healthy eyes, diet for maintaining the health of eyes."

This, believe it or not, is the title of an article. Is this overkill or what? Is there anything remaining to be said in the body of the article?

"We hear of people wishing for intentional or assisted suicide all the time..."

Wishing for assisted suicide is understandable, but wishing for intentional suicide? Isn't suicide intentional to begin with?

"Children’s can do many things that knowledge they have is the ability that they can do either physically or mentally, they are very humble, confident and they can do it.
Children have the capacity to do many things that they can do it on their own self. Those ways they really need to learn it, discover, how to use it and to think of it.
Children’s are always there to help someone, many believe and appreciate them as many of their friends and their families are also happy for them."

We'll just have to leave the above paragraph for the reader to sort out. It's beyond the capacity of Ramana.

And then there's this article which sounded very promising.

"You should always think about your readers..." Well, we thought, finally someone is echoing our sentiments. Then comes this sentence: "You're in the right track; if you're readers consider..." You're and your; the difference must be obvious. The same writer, in the same article, goes on to say:

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