the phenomenology of error

Williams brings up many interesting points in this chapter, I believe most things we have over looked or have not thought of.  At one point he discusses the action of people who discuss and condone certain writing rules and techniques and actually accuse other writers of violating said rules, then breaking the rules themselves.  I find it very interesting that so many writers who have worked with writing for such a long time and have brought themselves to such a "writing power" that they are able to justify and create or set in place these writing rules.  It's interesting that, in some instances (see Orwell example) some of these writers would make this mistake directly after they have explained how to follow or use the rule. 
Williams goes on to talk about how many teachers and other readers do not actually read the articles they receive from their students, but just find the errors in the assignment, missing the content.  Personally, I have had this happen to me, English teachers that don't read what you're writing, they just read the writing.  He does a good job of addressing this issue and gives a good set of examples to go from.  He likes to show other writers' mistakes and where they have made rules and then broken them, this doesn't mean that he is indicting them, though it does show that he would rather use writers as examples of his points rather than hypothetical instances.  This makes me think that even though he says isn't sanctimonious, in some ways he has to be. 

writing experience

I would consider my writing experience to be about as average as anyone else.  I haven't written much in the past year or so because I hadn't taken an english class since my freshman year.  The most writing I've done since then has only been research papers and reports.  Those have been 6 pages or less.  Though I haven't written in a while, I do enjoy writing papers sometimes. 

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