Bread recipe serves as important lesson
not teaching,
still THINKING …
Like homemade bread? So does a former colleague — a highly respected, now retired journalist who posted a baguette recipe on social media recently. But he transposed two important ingredients. No problem. Being the professional that he is, he immediately posted a correction.
Sunday, 3:01 p.m.: Recipe posted.
Monday, 1:13 a.m.: Correction posted.
It stated:
For the breadmakers who want to try their hand at the baguette recipe I posted Sunday, a small correction:
It should be 2 tablespoons of sugar, 1 tablespoon of salt. Just noticed I had them reversed.
Sorry
He followed the classic model for correcting an error by including:
- Reference to the original
- Publication date
- Where original appeared
- Nature of error
- Correct information
- Apology
Errors happen. Knowing how to correct them can make all the difference, and that’s as essential as the all-important difference between sugar and salt.
(These two profs are no longer teaching at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School, but we are still thinking.)
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