{"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:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2012\/04\/are-bad-examples-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Are bad examples good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3887\" style=\"width: 105px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bad_maths_example.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3887\" class=\" wp-image-3887  \" title=\"bad_maths_example\" src=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bad_maths_example-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"95\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Learn from mistakes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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<p><strong>Using examples to teach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For instance, I can tell you it is best to use the <a title=\"Short and sweet\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2010\/07\/short-and-sweet\/\">fewest words possible to give a message<\/a> and to avoid repeating a word.<\/p>\n<p>Or I can give an example: <span style=\"color: #808080;\">Leave as long as possible before proof reading your writing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Or I can show you a bad example:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #808080;\">Another effective way to increase the possibility of increasing your link building purposes&#8230; <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Then explain the issues with it and write it well: <span style=\"color: #808080;\">Another effective way of potentially increasing your incoming links&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Does it work for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you like seeing poor examples of something as a means of learning to avoid those same mistakes yourself?<\/p>\n<p>I have put some <a title=\"Bad writing examples to learn from\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/category\/bad-writing-examples\/\" target=\"_blank\">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 <a title=\"Subscribe to business writing ideas newsletter\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/subscribe.php\" target=\"_blank\">newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bad examples I use are real but I never identify who wrote them &#8211; if you searched hard enough you might figure it out, but I respect that the writers didn&#8217;t mean to provide us with bad examples and use discretion \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I think it is an effective way of showing how to write well &#8211; 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":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3888,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions\/3888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}