Re: Please contribute a Terrible Tech Writing Tip!

["Karen E. Black" <kblack_text -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Here's another good one, from a person training ME to instruct an English as 
a Second Language (ESL) class:

'Don't say, "I don't know." Be sure to tell the students that this topic 
will be covered in depth in a subsequent lesson.'

My first and only language is English. It comes as naturally to me as 
breathing does to you. Your "second language" is maybe second, third, fourth 
or fifth. You already have the skills you need to learn a new language: 
motivation... the desire, or need. I can't tell you I know something when I 
don't: good f***ing question! Let me look it up and and educate myself, then 
you!

I hope she's now buried in babies and housework and grunt-work and doesn't 
have TIME to teach ESL anymore!!

My heartfelt apologies to those whose hearts and minds are consumed by 
productive housework, grunt-work and babies, and who do not contribute to 
the demise of honest pedagogy.

Karen Black in Toronto, an insufficiently educated ESL teacher

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Is fearr socrú dá dhonacht ná dlí dá fheabhas.
It's better to solve the problem than to improve the law.
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