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A grammar mistake was caught and fixed.
Sometimes, making multiple posters without careful proof-readings can cause some misunderstandings. Please inform me if you find any "fishy" words or errors. Thanks.
A side-bar sharing:
When I was teaching, all my lecture notes, PowerPoint, videos, feedback to students' assignments/hands-on projects went through double and triple proof-readings by myself (English is my 3rd language. Ya, master none...). And sometimes, self-proof-readings could be lenient.
What about just using the handy spellchecker? Yes, I cannot write/type without it, which gradually, makes my spelling ability like a 3-year old.
But the spell checker may not always do a proper job. An example will appear later. It happened in my Contemporary American Society class.
(Share an honest secret: why I used PowerPoint so often? In fact, one of the purposes was to hide the 3-year-old spelling ability. But the spell-checker was mischievous, sometimes.)
Again, showing off my well-designed well-proof-read PowerPoint in class, then I harangued the PR (public relations) in politics. Students suddenly mentioned some affairs happening in politicians, such as Eliot Spitzer, Harry Rice, etc. I asked, "Hey, why you guys all of a sudden showed interest in these events?" One responsive student pointed to my PowerPoint, "Look! Didn't you have the 'pubic relations' on your PowerPoint?"
Hope the new generation of AI can detect contextual problems in spelling as well.
Other self-excused events were:
I had several years, Each Semester, teaching 6 to 7 classes:18 to 21 credits of 5 preps in 4 delivery formats, related to my majors/minors (again, master none) : sociology, diversity studies, developmental psy, social problems, and American government via face to face, online, hybrid/blend, and teleconference), the probabilities of making mistakes were much higher, even though, through my ginger proof-readings, (meanwhile, I was a grad commuting to MN to take its night classes as a part-time student to complete a degree.) Having said so, these teaching experiences make my English improved quite a bit. And fortunately, I was able to compile them into a research paper presented/shared at the AECT international conference before.
But could you hire someone to do all the proof-readings during the last 25 years' written words in lecture notes, PowePoint, videos, comments/feedback to students' projects, assignments, and the rest (while teaching in the US. )
I had taught in Taiwan for 8 years.
Using a language I am good at, one delivery format (lecture), for all my classes (English and Military Education) with tons of self-motivated students that is how I was spoiled as a teacher (not an educator)...
Now recalling those teaching days in Taipei, what a less complicated job it was.
Luckily enough, now I only need to focus on proof-readings for my social media posting things.
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In fact, writing in English can make one a nervous wreck - constantly.
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I thought after retirement, I did not have to use English for communication, but things don't happen that way...
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Another sidebar sharing: From my English learning experience, at this moment, the most challenging event is how to use "THE' properly
! Any advice to improve it? (Ya, can be cultural things?)