Back From the Holidays -- Good Writing Tip

This post is more about good writing for school than for the tests. But I couldn't resist. Using a spell-checker, as everyone knows, can help. But it's not a replacement for careful proofreading. As evidence, I offer the following poem....

Ode to the Spell Checker

author unknown

Eye halve a spelling checker
It came with my pea sea.
It plainly marks four my revue miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a quay and type a word and weight for it to say
Weather eye yam wrong oar write.
It shows me strait a weigh as soon as a mist ache is maid.
It nose bee fore two long and eye can put the error rite.
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it,
I am shore your pleased to no.
Its letter perfect awl the way.
My checker told me sew.