Not text talk, but who put her in the graduate program??

[Patron with a Mission]

I am editing a dissertation for a graduate student who is going for her doctorates in education. Now...I was happily editing until I came across this:

"For children who you are learning English, self-directed play establishes an informal, non-threatening atmosphere..."

Now I would understand if it was just one sentence like that. But it's not. There are many other sentences that are either messed up like this or don't have the right punctuations.

She has had THREE professors edit this dissertation thus far, and came to me to do it again. How do three people, four actually, miss a sentence like this?

Well, enough of my ranting. Back to editing this...paper... confused  

[mc2]

Wow... wow... wow...
That reminds me of times when I've edited friend's papers, but that was high school. Then again they always yelled at me when I pointed out their bad grammar.
I wonder who wrote her essays when she was applying to graduate school...  

[Nicholas Kaze]

Um... yeah, that was fairly pathetic. Yup. Nothing more to say.  

[Patron with a Mission]

Update:

I did finish editing after three gruesome days. I got paid, and well, I am fairly disappointed. If she gets into the graduate program, it will be a shallow victory for me, because I know she'll be back on my doorstep asking for more editing.

She said she was too busy to go through her own dissertation. "I could look everything up in the book. I just don't want to. I don't have time."

-sighs- This leaves me to question people in the college level. Anyone making hot coco or mixed drinks is welcome to make me one. I need it.  

[Nicholas Kaze]

Have some wine and cheese on me. cheese_whine

I tutor for English, and I feel your pain. Why can't people just use spell check and grammar check? Why can't they just read it through, or read it aloud?

Why must they torture the poor English tutors?!

...

I think I'll grab a wine and cheese for myself, too. cheese_whine  

[Patron with a Mission]

-bows- Thank you, my friend.

Well, consider this: if they didn't have issues writing, then tutors like us wouldn't have a job, now would we? confused  

[Nicholas Kaze]

Very true. Not only that, but one might imagine that they have other strengths outside of the literary world that are still beneficial. For example.... math, and.... um, what else doesn't involve too many words?