{"id":3875,"date":"2012-04-17T09:46:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T23:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=3875"},"modified":"2012-04-12T23:07:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T13:07:52","slug":"are-bad-examples-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2012\/04\/are-bad-examples-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Are bad examples good?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Learn from mistakes<\/p><\/div>\n

Theory has its place, but an example often makes learning something much easier. In many areas, an example of a mistake or poor quality is an even more effective teacher than examples of the correct technique.<\/p>\n

Using examples to teach<\/strong><\/p>\n

For instance, I can tell you it is best to use the fewest words possible to give a message<\/a> and to avoid repeating a word.<\/p>\n

Or I can give an example: Leave as long as possible before proof reading your writing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or I can show you a bad example:\u00a0Another effective way to increase the possibility of increasing your link building purposes… Then explain the issues with it and write it well: Another effective way of potentially increasing your incoming links…<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Does it work for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you like seeing poor examples of something as a means of learning to avoid those same mistakes yourself?<\/p>\n

I have put some bad writing examples in my blog<\/a> (and the one above is a real example from a blog post I read) and always include one in my newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The bad examples I use are real but I never identify who wrote them – if you searched hard enough you might figure it out, but I respect that the writers didn’t mean to provide us with bad examples and use discretion \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I think it is an effective way of showing how to write well – but do you find it useful? Would you like to see more bad examples I spot to help you improve your writing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Theory has its place, but an example often makes learning something much easier. In many areas, an example of a mistake or poor quality is an even more effective teacher than examples of the correct technique. Using examples to teach For instance, I can tell you it is best to use the fewest words possible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,49],"tags":[589,83,173,1721],"class_list":["post-3875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-word-constructions","category-bad-writing-examples","tag-examples","tag-improve","tag-learn","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t