Post 2: Williams on Error

When reading Joseph Williams' article about error i noticed one main thing that the article does. I noticed that it challenges why do writers and other experts that make the "rules" for grammar are so picky when even they themselves don't notice their errors in their own writing. He uses two examples where this occurs and also questions why no one else, along with the experts (example: E.B. White), don't catch or notice these errors. I also get a sense that he is puzzled as to why students can make these mistakes in their own papers but be told they have made an error and these experts are not questioned in the same way. As a undergrad i might now have understood the message of the article exactly but i feel like he targeted an older audience of writers and teachers that my have been previously blinded by these "rules" and "errors". I also think that Williams is defiantly targeting or indicting writing in general. More specifically he is targeting the picky and tedious rules that so called experts make that teachers then follow. The question being that, "If these experts make the mistake and then teachers ignore the mistake and a student then learns the mistake the teacher misses why are these rules even followed if they are actually learned?" This, Williams states, is why he is so puzzled.