All of the above named individuals have been striving with great effort to write badly. However, for a truly bad writer, such as myself, writing badly is completely effortless. I trained in it diligently over the course of 30 years in social work with public agencies, including three years as a policy specialist for a state Department of Welfare in which my primary job was to write state policy manuals based on federal regulations. In addition, I returned to graduate school when I was 40 years old, spending two years learning to write APA style so that I would know how to write a professional paper, perhaps for publication in a social work or public policy journal. Although my final drafts are no longer always perfect, as they were in the days when all of my writing was reviewed in team meetings prior to statewide distribution to field staff, my sentence structure, grammer and punctuation still tend to be quite good in the sense of being correct according to the Harbrace College Handbook that I used in those days. However, as I am sure is apparent to all who read this, my writing is very dry, cumbersome and uneccessarily wordy, and my spelling is not as good as it used to be.

And that's the truth!

Janie