{"id":116,"date":"2020-09-21T18:50:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T22:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/whywriteguide2e\/chapter\/5-10-in-summary\/"},"modified":"2022-08-25T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T13:23:07","slug":"5-10-in-summary","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/whywriteguide2e\/chapter\/5-10-in-summary\/","title":{"raw":"5.10 In Summary","rendered":"5.10 In Summary"},"content":{"raw":"There are people who seem to think that \u201cgood writing\u201d is exactly the same thing as \u201cgood grammar.\u201d We hope that by reading this chapter\u2014as well as earlier chapters in this book\u2014you understand why that doesn\u2019t make much sense. Writing as an act of communication involves much more than sentence-level details of word order and phrasing and punctuation. More importantly, since all language follows a grammar of some kind, there isn\u2019t such a thing as \u201cgood grammar\u201d or, for that matter, \u201cbad grammar.\u201d References to so-called correct grammar might be thought of as actually referring to \u201ccorrect for this particular audience given this genre and this rhetorical situation.\u201d\r\n\r\nYet grammar and style are worth paying attention to because they affect how audiences will interact with your writing. Readers expecting formal language might be turned off by colloquial phrasing. Those who don\u2019t want to be distracted might see unusual phrasing as annoying. And those who associate formal correctness with the conventions of academic writing might not think much of your scholarly ethos if you seem not to have proofread an essay to eliminate spelling errors.\r\n\r\nAt the same time, we hope you see, from some of the examples discussed here, that grammar and style are also connected to much bigger ideas about writers\u2019 identities, voices, and points of view. Skillful writers can break so-called \u201crules\u201d and, in the process, make their writing even more powerful.\r\n\r\nIn sum, the reason to learn about grammar isn\u2019t to be \u201ccorrect\u201d\u2014it\u2019s to empower yourself to make choices about details of your writing that get readers to pay attention to and understand what you\u2019re trying to say.\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>HAPPY WRITING!<\/strong><\/h2>","rendered":"<p>There are people who seem to think that \u201cgood writing\u201d is exactly the same thing as \u201cgood grammar.\u201d We hope that by reading this chapter\u2014as well as earlier chapters in this book\u2014you understand why that doesn\u2019t make much sense. Writing as an act of communication involves much more than sentence-level details of word order and phrasing and punctuation. More importantly, since all language follows a grammar of some kind, there isn\u2019t such a thing as \u201cgood grammar\u201d or, for that matter, \u201cbad grammar.\u201d References to so-called correct grammar might be thought of as actually referring to \u201ccorrect for this particular audience given this genre and this rhetorical situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet grammar and style are worth paying attention to because they affect how audiences will interact with your writing. Readers expecting formal language might be turned off by colloquial phrasing. Those who don\u2019t want to be distracted might see unusual phrasing as annoying. And those who associate formal correctness with the conventions of academic writing might not think much of your scholarly ethos if you seem not to have proofread an essay to eliminate spelling errors.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, we hope you see, from some of the examples discussed here, that grammar and style are also connected to much bigger ideas about writers\u2019 identities, voices, and points of view. Skillful writers can break so-called \u201crules\u201d and, in the process, make their writing even more powerful.<\/p>\n<p>In sum, the reason to learn about grammar isn\u2019t to be \u201ccorrect\u201d\u2014it\u2019s to empower yourself to make choices about details of your writing that get readers to pay attention to and understand what you\u2019re trying to say.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>HAPPY WRITING!<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"menu_order":10,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":["erin-kelly","sara-humphreys","natalie-boldt","nancy-ami"],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[50],"contributor":[62,63,64,61],"license":[],"class_list":["post-116","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless","contributor-erin-kelly","contributor-nancy-ami","contributor-natalie-boldt","contributor-sara-humphreys"],"part":97,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/whywriteguide2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/whywriteguide2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/whywriteguide2e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/whywriteguide2e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/whywriteguide2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/whywriteguide2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/116\/revisions\/278"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/whywriteguide2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/97"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/whywriteguide2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/116\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/whywriteguide2e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/whywriteguide2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/whywriteguide2e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/whywriteguide2e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}