[SamAdams76]

I can attest to this. Most of the emails I get in my company are deplorable. It is as if a bunch of second graders are running the company! If I send more than a paragraph in reply, I sometimes get the comment "You didn't have to write a novel!" Many of them don't realize that I can type faster than I can talk!

Being able to write clearly and type it out quickly certainly is an advantage for me career-wise. I've been in offices of vice-presidents, watching them painfully "hunt and peck" at their keyboards, trying to keep up with the email. The virtual elimination of personal secretaries in our corporate culture has exposed a lot of poor writing skills in upper management.

[Gorzaloon]

"i need help," said the message, which was devoid of punctuation. "i am writing a essay on writing i work for this company and my boss want me to help improve the workers writing skills can yall help me with some information thank you".

I wonder how this NEA Dumbed-downer will vote?

I am probably pouring gasoline on a fire, but the best writing I have ever seen was an H1-B engineer from India. While I could barely understand him when he spoke without getting dizzy, reading his technical reports and proposals was humbling to this English speaker! He had a PhD, and obviously came from a family who were not exactly living in a grass hut- But wherever he went to school, they taught the King's English.

It was not only humbling to read his writings, it was frightening, when one considers that he is competing for American jobs. He liked it here, and became a citizen.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The virtual elimination of personal secretaries in our corporate culture has exposed a lot of poor writing skills in upper management.

How interesting.

Colleges are testing incoming students on their writing skills as well as their English and math skills. Many of them have to take remedial classes.

[SuziQ]

I think a lot of younger workers are used to the 'Instant Messaging' way of writing. I'd read somewhere last year, that teachers are having to remind their students that the abbreviations used online don't work in essays for school.

[Gondring]

Being able to write clearly and type it out quickly certainly is an advantage for me career-wise. I've been in offices of vice-presidents, watching them painfully "hunt and peck" at their keyboards, trying to keep up with the email.

So you're the president?