Why is SPaG important?

Clearly you don't understand what you have read since the news article you posted was about using fonts that are difficult to understand, not texts with messy spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

The same logic applies if something is more difficult to read students will concentrate more on it and thus learn more, if it is easy then they will assume they understand when they don't.With easy to read text you will rush reading it and could assume you know it when you don't but if its hard you will spend time on trying to decipher it and thus are likely to learn more.

Making something harder to read will improve learning either by using harder to read fonts or harder to read language with messy SPaG.

I watched a video on how there are two types of human thinking type 1(very basic and suitable for simple tasks) and 2(much deeper thinking) using 1 can often make you come up with incorrect conclusions like if a bat and a ball add up to 1.10 and the bat is 1 more than the ball using 1 will make you think the ball is 0.10 when its actually 0.05.I am confident messy SPaG will force you to use thinking type 2.

To claim that the study supports your view is essentially like saying drinking poison is good for your health because studies showed that drinking water is good for your health and they both are liquid.

I struggled to read La Morte d'Arthur because of the different spellings (it being Middle English and all). It took a lot of concentration to read, and I couldn't tell you a thing that happened in it. However, ask me about The Bell Jar, written with the SPaG I am used to, and I can tell you exactly what happened, despite only reading it once, while I read d'Arthur three times.
We can't expect students to analyse texts if they're struggling just to work out what the sentences say.
Additionally, who would read for enjoyment if it took a lot of work to understand the text? Obviously more literary texts do take concentration, but imagine trying to teach a toddler to read when cat could be spelt "cat", "kat", "catt" or "katt". The level of frustration would almost certainly prevent them from ever picking a book up out of choice.


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SPaG is the difference between:

"i helped my uncle jack off a horse"
And
"I helped my uncle Jack, off a horse."

I think SPAG is important in GCSE'S, especially English because it demonstrates skills of structuring paragraphs and sentences with punctuation, spelling is essential in making it easier for someone to read something as there is only one way to do so and grammar makes the writing flow coherently and more interesting to read. In our school, when we do peer assessments, bad grammar puts me off because it can ruin the beauty of worlds.

As for your point with other languages, SPAG does differ. For example, Spanish and English have different grammar rules. But, why would you not know the English grammar rules if you have been taught by teachers?

Poor example both of those read like example 2, it took me a while to see what you wanted me to read for example 1.We don't use punctuation for speech and this is something that confuses me why do we use it for text and not speech?

The rules are different in other languages which means there is little logic behind why the rules should be the way they are, as opposed to Maths and Science.Forcing pupils to use a set of rules because someone decided that they should use them like that because they liked it is just manipulating people to write in a certain way that is not necessarily the correct way, its not that different from manipulating people to belief a religious belief.

I believe that our expression of language through our writing should show individuality.Also, bad SPaG can be used for effect and show a lot of meaning in the text(something that the GCSE doesn't take into account) ie. it could show that the person writing it was in a rush(lack of paragraphs could do the same even though if you do this you lose loads of marks), wanted the text to remain secretive(young people's slang would be much harder to read for an old person).

I see what you mean in the first paragraph, about how rules differ but that is just the way GCSE'S work and if it sticks to one type of grammar then it makes it easier to mark.
With the Bad Grammar, I do agree it sometimes can be used for effect like Slang Words and this can be used in actual books but I think the examiners want to know your knowledge of proper, standard grammar first

SPaG is important to help people to convey ideas in a clear, succinct, and professional manner. I agree that 10 marks for grammar and spelling in a geography test is slightly absurd, but it's good to have some incentive for young people to learn how to write properly.

Also, I would argue that the rules of SPaG actually make little sense and very inconsistent like for example the rule "i before e except after c" which has loads of exceptions and without explanation(I'd argue this for a lot of spellings).Mathematics and Science actually makes sense if there is something that breaks the rules then it makes sense like division by zero.

Poor example both of those read like example 2, it took me a while to see what you wanted me to read for example 1.We don't use punctuation for speech and this is something that confuses me why do we use it for text and not speech?

Also, I would argue that the rules of SPaG actually make little sense and are very inconsistent like for example the rule "i before e except after c" which has loads of exceptions and without explanation(I'd argue this for a lot of spellings).

Mathematics and Science actually makes sense if there is something that breaks the rules then it makes sense like division by zero.