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“Who could have sent me this terrible email, and what did they want?” I thought to myself! Was this person some kind of jokester or was this a practical joke of some kind?
The email was sent to me by a fellow named Orley (who I didn’t know), and he told me that he lived in the panhandle of Florida near the Alabama state line. Orley told me in his email, that he was concerned about his website, his spelling and grammar, and he wanted somebody to go to his website and critique it, and give him advice as to how to improve it, etc.
Over the short time I had been online, there have been many people who have helped me in a variety of ways, so I decided to go to Orley’s website to see how I could help him. And, from what I saw of that email…Orley NEEDED HELP! He told me he wanted to go into business for himself, but he was not going to get very far with emails that looked like the one he sent me! At this point, I still didn’t know if I was dealing with a jokester but, I went to pay a visit to his website anyway.
There, I found a pretty nice looking website, with a thing or two wrong, but nothing major. A nice Front Page, with links and buttons to объективы Perreaux different places, etc. Judging from that first dreadful email he sent me, somebody must have helped him put up his website. The website was not bad at all. I didn’t see much of anything I could report back to him, with respect to errors on his website.
And besides, I’m not an editor or a grammarian. In college, I was not an English, journalism, or communications major. And yes, I did complete two correspondence writing courses in my 40’s, and by doing so, it автомобильные усилители Rockford Fosgate helped me improve my writing skills and gave me the confidence to continue with my ambitions in writing. I think all of us just do our best when it comes to writing, after all, we’re dealing with the English language…which is all “Greek” to me!
I really didn’t know how to handle the situation with Orley, but I thought honesty would be the best policy. But, I had to be encouraging and supportive of him. Constructive criticism was the name of the
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