Error

As a reader when I read an article or any sort of finished product, I put higher standards on the writing than I probably should. Like in "The Phenomenology of Error" I am the type of reader that results in getting kind of angers me. This I think is a problem because I as a reader am too harsh on other people's work even though my own work is riddled with errors. The game that he played with me was a game that I lost for I didn't catch the mass amount of errors he was speaking of. This brought up a question of whether I really care about errors or just obvious ones. Like when he spoke of the fat hostess who you make fun of just because they violate your own comfort zone. This is what happens when I read errors, I feel uncomfortable because I wish that it was perfect and the errors alone make me uncomfortable.The game that I unknowingly was playing is now letting me think of how oblivious In not only reading but in my life.

The way Joseph Williams was able to subtly play this game and in the end prove a point was very impressive. I throughout this course have been reminded of my own writing in eye opening ways such as this one. He put so much thought into an article. On the surface the article looks like a well thout out article on errors and you take it at that face value until you read the last paragrraph and realize that there was an underline message the entire time. The amount of time it must of took to purposely place your errors must have been more than most of my school papers have had in the revision state.

This article gave me a different effect on me than it probably should have. Instead of thinking about how errors are everywhere I thought about how much time must have went into planning. It is beyond me how someone could write with that muc planning and thought in every word, sentence, and paragraph.