These tips kind of suck for anybody who already knows grammar. She's kind of a grammar nazi. She'd be all like, ee cummings, you are a little girl writing an IM.

I send this to my english teacher mother, and she approves. I'm not sure what that means though.

Did I need a comma there oh shi

I think 'speak what you write' is actually a very good tip. I correct my girlfriend's papers all the time, and she writes sentences that legitimately look as though she combined two unrelated sentences. It's not Strunk & White, but it's a good start for the average internet retard.

People don't understand their own voice and are constantly trying to 'recreate' it with a better sounding authority--debasing their own abilities in the process whlie trying to seem like some plastic idol.

The same thing occurs with most things, 'I obviously don't know what I am doing so I had better be like the best-est person/master/type doing this stuff so I can be good'.

Cooking--has to taste like a TV dinner. Fucking--has to be like a porn star. Writing--has to be like WHO THE FUCK KNOWS?! but that guy, he sucks.

Classic mistake is to over-fluff your work so that somehow your words sound legitimate. I learned that you must firt structure a cogent argument in an expository manner to create a meaningful piece of work. But really, that's not the same thing as trying to stop not sounding like who you are.

Oh, and don't read lots of sonnets before you write, it seems to do a number on me--just my two centimes.

I find it hilarious that a page on proper grammar and writing found its way onto LS. Honestly, isn't it a little hypocritical? Maybe Tantrum submitted as a sort of 'self-help' page.

I could say so much...

Troll.