As professional writers, we must also work with those same orthographic conventions of usage–punctuation, spelling, and style–to meet the
All speakers (and writers) of a language must have a working, largely unconscious knowledge of all
the rules that speakers follow: phonology, morphology, and grammar. Additionally, writers must also
have similar, unconscious knowledge of the orthographic rules–punctuation, spelling, and style–that are
not part of a spoken language (except perhaps some stylistic knowledge as part of speaking to different
audiences).
As professional writers, we must also work with those same orthographic conventions of usage–
punctuation, spelling, and style–to meet the expectations of our audience. With that goal in mind,
and for the initial post in this discussion, refer to the piece titled Editing and Revision for Usage under
the Week One Content tab and choose one of the listed usage issues to write about.
In your initial response answer the following questions:
1) Has this been an issue for you, or that you see others struggling with? Explain.
2) What is the history or pattern or evidence for this usage issue?
3) How will this usage issue feature in how your writing is viewed in your intended professional area?
Explain.
Note: 2) above will require some brief searching in Internet sources to discover some history of
language usage conventions. I recommend Wikipedia, but also a general search with a search term
such as “history of …” will produce very useful results such as this one.
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