Katherine Kelly
Task 4 – Manual Scripts
https://blogs.ubc.ca/katherineetec540/2022/06/11/task-4-manual-scripts/
To use or not to use white-out, that is the question.
I appreciated Katherine’s discussion on how not being able to use white-out bothered her and how she disliked the messiness of crossing out words. I actually liked her crossing it and thought it was less-noticeable compared to the way most people cross out words, using the slashes through the words.
I am intrigued by this conversation on the preference of white-out vs crossing out. I myself prefer crossing out when I’m in a hurry or don’t need to keep my writing neat. The white-out can come across as cleaner although some of the teacher in our school said they don’t really like to use it and it feels like hiding mistakes. Whether it’s white-out or crossing out, the mistake is there and we know there was a potential mistake made or a change in the mind of the writer, but with white-out there is no ability to see what the change or mistake was.
Especially the humanity focused teachers preferred crossing out to white-out because they felt that on drafts and other work it could potentially give them insight into the work of their students and maybe potential struggles where they need help. For the process focused teachers, they could see more of the process and it gave them a better feel for what they were looking at.
Others just mentioned that they found it disruptive to use white-out. The process of putting down the pen to grab the white-out and cover the mistake was disruptive to their flow and they didn’t mind that if others read it, they would see the mistakes. They said that their process of writing was very much about being “in the zone” and they just crossed out mistakes because it wasn’t nearly as disruptive to what they were doing as it was to stop, white out and then carry on.