[ProfCrash]

Harry,

You should be profficient, you do the samething every day. It should be second nature to you. I do not write papers any more, I write in power point with bullets.

I was an A student in English when it came to reading comprehension, vocabulary, and creative writing. I was a D student in grammar. Sentence structure, memorizing anything beyond noun, verb, and preposition were simply past me. I studied. My parents made me and I had tutors. There are many a story about four hour homework sessions between word problems in math and grammar homework. But it never made any sense to me. Diagraming sentnces was a waste of time. I have no idea what a split infinitive is and I end sentences with prepositions. I write the way I speak.

Which is why I hired a proofreader and always asked freinds to review my work in college and grad school.

Somethings come easily to some people and not others. It annoys the crap out of me when anyone says "I don't get how people cannot do X" whether that is math, grammar, geography or whatever. I am sure you have your weaknesses and I am sure there is someone out there who has no clue why it is that you can't do X easily.

Take it from a smart person with eight learning disabilities and ADHD, learning is not easy for everyone. What strikes you as simple is probably difficult for someone else. Be patient and kind, it goes a long way to actually helping people learn because they are more likely to listen to you then when you are rolling your eyes telling them that it is obvious.