How can I rise up the correction rate on my articles here ?
I really love the corrections from native speakers on my short articles here. I learned a lot about grammar and daily life usages. But something bother me is that, sometimes, no one corrected my articles. How can I ensure that my articles will all be corrected by someone, or at least, how can I rise up the correction rate on my articles here? I'm not very familiar with the operations on this platform. Could you give me some advice about that?
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How can I rise up increase/improve the correction rate of my articles here?
I really love the corrections from native speakers on my short articles here. I have learned a lot about grammar and daily life usages(1). But, something that bothers me is that, sometimes, no one corrects my articles. How can I ensure that my articles will all be corrected by someone, or at least, how can I improve rise up the correction rate of my articles here? I'm not that very familiar with the operations of this platform/site. Could you give me some advice about that?
(1) "I've learned a lot about grammar and how to use the language in daily life", or "... and how to use the language more naturally" would be better.
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I think sometimes it's just luck. Occasionally you find that 30 people all write a notebook in your language within an hour and they just drop out of view. I sometimes filter by English and try and look back to find ones that have been missed, but it's a bit of extra effort.
When I choose whether to correct something it's based on:
- Quality of writing (I'm no teacher, so I don't correct pieces that I think are by beginners).
- Length. Sometimes I don't want to spend 30 minutes correcting something. However I'll do longer pieces that are mostly correct because they take less work. I would say that, based on your writing, I would correct a longer piece. It's coherent and quite natural.
- Interest. As Onekoiboy said, if the entry is interesting to me I'll probably correct it.
Edit to say:
Joseph has a good point. 500 words in a single paragraph is very hard to parse and will put me off.
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I think you need to break up your text into smaller bits. I notice that you write usually using one whole long paragraph. It is easier and quicker for me to scan texts and find mistakes in short paragraphs.
Teachers here usually avoid correcting very long texts because we dont have time. It is the same with large blocks of text.
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Hi, Claire. If you have an interesting title, or your post is about a topic that most people would find interesting, they would be more inclined to look at, as well as then to correct it. Perhaps, shorten your titles: Laser Spot Removal instead of Notebook--I did the laser spot removal. Personally, your ability in the English language is not that important, but as a volunteer here, my "payment" is that you somehow pique my interest with your writing. You can review my past edits (I think!) to see the posts that have attracted my attention. If I have time (LOL! I am currently unemployed due to the Coronavirus) I will review, as well as edit some of your older posts over the next few days.
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I would suggest that you make this a discussion topic rather than a notebook entry.
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