10-06-2014, 05:15 AM
Renatus wrote:
I do not want to reach my conclusions based on only one side of the argument, yours or theirs. I want to hear both and then make my judgement.
I like building kits of wooden ships, like Nelson’s Victory. If the kit fits together well without me doing excessive amounts of sanding, and the manual is easy to follow, then for me it is a good kit. I don’t need a review of the kit to tell what I know from my own experience. You either know or you don’t if something has merit or not.
Martin
I have proof-read so many PhD theses that I have lost count; I once read about ten pages of one before I handed the whole thing back, along with a copy of a book on basic English grammar. It is insulting to the reader to present something that is not competently written from a structural viewpoint.
Bad grammar can be easily correct. It is the content that counts. How do you know that after the ten pages the author could have found the secret of life if you don’t read all of it? When I was in the USA, I found that the script readers who approved of a new script were the secretaries. One actually told me she rejects scripts that have long dialogue, which in her case amount to three syllables. This is the same secretary who thought the American Civil War was started by Martin Luther King.
Martin
William Bligh was a remarkably fine navigator, incidentally.
And he was not a coward hiding under the bed as Minchin claims.
I do not want to reach my conclusions based on only one side of the argument, yours or theirs. I want to hear both and then make my judgement.
I like building kits of wooden ships, like Nelson’s Victory. If the kit fits together well without me doing excessive amounts of sanding, and the manual is easy to follow, then for me it is a good kit. I don’t need a review of the kit to tell what I know from my own experience. You either know or you don’t if something has merit or not.
Martin
I have proof-read so many PhD theses that I have lost count; I once read about ten pages of one before I handed the whole thing back, along with a copy of a book on basic English grammar. It is insulting to the reader to present something that is not competently written from a structural viewpoint.
Bad grammar can be easily correct. It is the content that counts. How do you know that after the ten pages the author could have found the secret of life if you don’t read all of it? When I was in the USA, I found that the script readers who approved of a new script were the secretaries. One actually told me she rejects scripts that have long dialogue, which in her case amount to three syllables. This is the same secretary who thought the American Civil War was started by Martin Luther King.
Martin
William Bligh was a remarkably fine navigator, incidentally.
And he was not a coward hiding under the bed as Minchin claims.
