Comments on: How Good Are You at English? http://odeskinsider.com/blog/english-assessment/ Freelancing is more fun with oDesk Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:09:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MadRooster http://odeskinsider.com/blog/english-assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-493 MadRooster Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:40:35 +0000 http://www.odeskinsider.com/blog/english-assessment/#comment-493 hmmm... I also found a period where a semicolon should be, and a missing comma in the next paragraph. Apologies, it just cracks me up to find these things here, in this column. hmmm… I also found a period where a semicolon should be, and a missing comma in the next paragraph. Apologies, it just cracks me up to find these things here, in this column.

]]> By: MadRooster http://odeskinsider.com/blog/english-assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-492 MadRooster Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:37:26 +0000 http://www.odeskinsider.com/blog/english-assessment/#comment-492 "If you can’t write don’t call yourself a writer." Shouldn't there be a comma after write? Sorry to be a pain, but this is a rant about English errors. hehe “If you can’t write don’t call yourself a writer.” Shouldn’t there be a comma after write? Sorry to be a pain, but this is a rant about English errors. hehe

]]> By: Nelson Manning http://odeskinsider.com/blog/english-assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-208 Nelson Manning Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:23:44 +0000 http://www.odeskinsider.com/blog/english-assessment/#comment-208 The same goes for other fields as well. I can draw a pretty mean stick-man, but I'm not an artist. I can hack together simple things in Ruby, but I'm not a programmer. Some people assume that certain professions are "easy to do" because they believe they have the basic skillsets. For example: transcription jobs. I did a transcription job and showed some friends how to get into it. They saw me take a scrambled, 30 minute clip and turn it into text in about 45 minutes to an hour. When they tried it, it took about three hours for those 30 minutes. They thought they would be okay because they had the basic skills of listening and typing, but there's a little more to it. Here's another example: I have a knife and know how to cut people. Anyone want cheap surgery? Anyone? The same goes for other fields as well. I can draw a pretty mean stick-man, but I’m not an artist. I can hack together simple things in Ruby, but I’m not a programmer.

Some people assume that certain professions are “easy to do” because they believe they have the basic skillsets. For example: transcription jobs. I did a transcription job and showed some friends how to get into it. They saw me take a scrambled, 30 minute clip and turn it into text in about 45 minutes to an hour. When they tried it, it took about three hours for those 30 minutes. They thought they would be okay because they had the basic skills of listening and typing, but there’s a little more to it.

Here’s another example: I have a knife and know how to cut people. Anyone want cheap surgery?

Anyone?

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