Well, I appreciate the credit, but if you look back at what you wrote, it was really YOUR idea about the mistakes!
BTW, I just revealed to you my standard trick as a writing tutor: ask the person what she wants to say, tell her what she said, and then accept heaps of praise for making so much sense and for being so helpful.
I was actually called a "genius" by more than one person...for mirroring exactly what they told me in the exact same words!
People are funny things!
A further BTW: this is a great trick for parents wanting to help kids with writing assignments. Ask the child what he wants to say, and record his responses. Ask questions to clarify whatever you don't understand, but write down only his words, not yours. Then read back what you wrote. 99 times out of 100, the child will be amazed at how much sense what you read back makes. But it's all the child's work. It's also a strategy that they learn to do for themselves with practice, so you aren't making the child reliant upon you. It's tutoring in the truest sense of the word: teaching someone the skill of thinking and writing, rather than telling them what to think and write.
And Jool, you know where to find me...
