What Corporate America Can T Build: A Sentence Summary

Not So Fast,” Andrea Lunsford argues that rather than leading to a new illiteracy, the digital technologies in the modern world help students to develop their ability of writing. Not only that students are daferrors than 25 years ago, actually with less spelling errors. In order to help students with the challenges, the teacher should offer solid instructions and encouragement rather than derision.

Employers and educators realize the importance of good writing skills but many business employees have writing deficiencies, costing American businesses billions of dollars every year. According to a study conducted by the National Commission on Writing (NCW) in 2004, American businesses may spend close to $3.1 billion yearly on the remediation of employees’ writing deficiencies. Consequently, employers are dissatisfied with employees writing skills and even more disappointed in the skills of new college graduates.

I chose to interview Gabby Turner, who is a graphic designer and social media strategist. She works for a non-profit organization called Ekhaya Youth Project, which provides support to families involved in the Louisiana Mental Health Services. After discussing the importance of strong writing and the function of grammar within her profession with Ms. Turner, I discovered new information about my future career path. She explained that strong writing plays an important role in her career because of the effect it has on her image. If she presents an idea through an email or presentation and her writing is not strong, then potential clients or co-workers may view her as inferior. Ms. Turner believes that although strong writing is important, in

In the article " Are Writing Deficiencies Creating a Lost Generation of Business Writers ?" the authors Zane K. Quible and Frances Griffin, analyze the reasons for writing deficiencies of students and employees. The author asserts that there are consequences of writing deficiencies. To form a well-rounded debate the authors introduce various approaches. The argument is presented and supported by evidence from previous research.

One of the most common errors found in formal papers of individuals who use texting regularly is abbreviations or shortened versions, instead of the proper spelling. This is one of the most common concerns of teachers grading papers in school. Jacquie Ream the author of Keep it Short and Simple has blames the use of acronyms and shorthand in text messages for student’s inability to spell. Naomi Baron who is a linguistics professor has said that “so much of the American

“We’ve Got Mail-Always” by Andrew Leonard is an article published in 1999 that highlights both the positive and the negative aspects of email in the 1990s. While in some cases email made people productive, for others, it wasted their time. Leonard presents nearly every aspect of email to the reader, allowing him to make his own opinion about email and its advantages and disadvantages. Leonard uses examples and comparison to support his belief that email can have both advantages and disadvantages.

Situational exigencies have a major influence on employees’ writing competency. Transitioning from academic writing to workplace writing can be difficult for college graduates, as the goals of academic writing has proven to be remarkably different, than that of employer’s. Academic writing goals are to assess students comprehension of course knowledge and not promote their ability to succeed in professional workplace environments. In addition, social media has impacted workplace writing immensely. Social media has allowed people of all ages to develop unintelligible ‘cyber slang.’ Cyber slang has been seen to carry through to the workplace, resulting in unprofessional writing habits, along with poor written communication. These social exigencies have made it difficult for newly employed college graduates to complete routine tasks. The failure of employees to complete routine tasks has created an animosity with employers, having to teach proper workplace writing

We have come full circle in forms of communication. From “cave man” grunts, body and hand gestures, and pictographic wall paintings, to “cubicle man” lols (laugh-out-loud), ttyls (talk-to-you-later), and smiley face emoticons, we are regressing to an earlier form of interactions. The expressive and communicative richness of writing is slowly becoming the archeological relics of an electronic modern society. I am no stranger to this failing. I started high school with a loose grasp of the tools of writing; I left high school with a, slightly, better grasp of those tools. Now, as my high school years fall farther behind me, and the academic language of writing erodes, the loose grasp of writing skills I had is becoming far looser. My writing

With the requirement for every employee to write more effectively, improved skills are becoming increasingly important in the workplace. One main reason is the advancement of the telecommunications and email system with non-quantifiable millions of employees utilizing this system on an everyday basis. This has become a self-imposed crutch for many to become careless in their written thoroughness. Email was conceived to be a tool to communicate and must contain tangible information. Communication in this method must be clear and concise, and the author should take care not to muddle the message. Dawn Josephson, president of Cameo Publications, states “If you send out a sales letter that is filled with errors, you’re losing credibility. You send the image that your company is careless” (cited in Tyler, 2003, 87). Therefore, an indicator potentially leading to a loss of business and previously cited low morale.

As you are well aware by now there was a memo circulated recently that was a very poor reflection on our company. Unfortunately the memo was seen by a client and those on the sales force has been suffering from very low morale. I’m requesting your support in starting a workshop on improving individual writing skills. At this point in time I don’t think that there is a more important project. It is extremely clear that we need to help our coworkers learn how to communicate more effectively. As unfair as it may seem, we are judged by the way we communicate, the words that we use, and the way we use them.

When was the last time you wrote a formal letter to a colleague or family member? What did the greeting on the last card you sent say? For many of us, the art of writing formal correspondence ended with school mandated assignments. Very few of us will continue on in careers which would require us to produce lengthy reports or write formal letters frequently. It may be that we will provide the administrative staff with the skeleton of a formal letter and expect that they would have the expertise to convert it into a grammatically accurate product. The reality is, due to the rapid advances in technological communication, we will rely less on lengthy formal correspondence as we increase the volume of communication we do via email and texting. We will find new ways of expressing ourselves and people will accept what was once considered to be slang as modern English. Tweeting and texting provide a platform for the English language to continue its evolution while still maintaining its foundation. Just as the American spelling, with the help of Noah Webster, evolved out of a need for a new identity, we are once again at a time where the digital age is refining or creating a new global language.

On the other hand, the potential for misinterpretation is growing with the use of electronic devices. “Most business communication is now done via e-mails, text, instant messaging, intranets, blogs, websites and other technology-enabled media-sans body language”-opens the door for misconception (Tardanico). In this fast-paced world we live in, people are stressed, rushed, making deadlines and frequently do not take the time to consider the possible irritants of their writing. They just hit send and go.

The clear effects that social media, email, blogs, and Twitter have on writing in this decade is bluntly obvious. Writing has become choppy, shortened sentences with more abbreviations than actual words and this is due to mainly being limited to 140 characters or less. Email is mainly informal and less stiff when it comes to language and writing, unless composing for business is the main objective. Students tend to hand in reports or papers that are written in formats and sentences which include abbreviations or read like emails exchanged between friends.

Twenty years ago, the thought of instantly publishing your thoughts for the world to see with the simple push of a button, would have been a dream. Today, websites and on-line forums have made this dream possible. Through the years, technology has made advancements in many fields. Today, nowhere is that more apparent than in the field of writing. Electronic writing’s detractors fear that the increase of electronic writing will spell disaster for modern language. History does not support this claim however. Some additional complaints about electronic text are that it is not aesthetically pleasing and it is awkward to read. This is a copout for people unwilling to

As America continues to develop as a tech-savvy country abundant with numerous cultures, the American English language will continue to adjust to it’s country’s advancements and diversity. In the 21st century, our world has created technology that prior generations would not have thought possible. Although inventors of the 20th century gifted us with several foundations for technology today, it is our recent advanced technology that will possibly alter the English language. The idea of efficiently communicating with others through text has been developing since centuries back. Early methods of communicating across the globe included the creation of postal services and the telegraph. However, as our technology exceled toward a more