more on competent writing

[albionidaho]

Okay. We need to define competent writing because, so far, the responses I've received from the last post surprised me.

How do you define competent writing?

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[welshwmn3.livejournal.com]

Dictionary dot com has these definitions for competent:

1. having suitable or sufficient skill, knowledge, experience, etc., for some purpose; properly qualified: He is perfectly competent to manage the bank branch.
2. adequate but not exceptional.


I think you were using competent as in definition number two, while others are using definition number one.

When I think of competent, I usually think of definition number two, myself.

[albionidaho.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, Welshy, that's exactly the definition I'm using.