Reading these two article felt reflective, especially the article on immigrants and writing, but I won’t spoil the article for you.
I won’t hire people who use poor grammar. Here’s why.
This article was definitely interesting to say the least. Without spoiling the article, Wiens explains to his readers just how meticulous he is in his reviews of job requests/resumes. After learning that his company specifically makes step-by-step manuals, it makes sense that his employees should be able to have great grammar skills. Outside the scope of Wiens job requirements, I always thought that grammar, at least for me, was a little tricky. I have mentioned before of my natural intrigue of reading, and a lot of my writing reflect the books I’ve read and my background in theater, the subconscious need to tell a story is strong with this one. Wiens mentions the basic understanding of “there, their, and they’re” and I find that the more a person reads, the easier it is to spot the differences between those and similar ones as well like “to, two, and too.” It almost feels like when seeing basic grammar skills used correctly over and over again, it becomes muscle memory when it comes to one’s own writing.
Being an Immigrant writer in America today
Now this is the article that I saw myself in the most. Spoiler alert, it’s about writing in an American society as an “outsider”. Its no secret that its hard out here for an immigrant pimp, speaking from experience. I come from an island where the written word was very different than that of spoken word. It’s been described as a “broken English” alluding to the idea that it needed to be fixed, living in island, nothing seemed broken about the language. The sun breaks into a new day, and I am going to school with classmates with accents and syntax’s that differ than those of my early peers. As I moved through middle school and high school and even college, I have come to learn and embrace the many faces that English as a language has presented itself. I currently, am obsessed with the English language after having taken a history and origins course two semesters ago. The article said it best, because the language is not my own, I have come to love the language and expressing gratitude by sharing its vast and undiscovered nooks and crannies, just feels right. The language has opened its doors widely, and like a greedy cat, I pounced at the opportunity.
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