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   Literacy is important.  It is the sign of a disciplined, vibrant, and 
educated mind.  60% of college grads enter the job market without the 
basic skills they need to write a simple position paper or to clearly 
articulate an idea.

It is a simple choice:

   Do you want to be in the top half or the bottom half of wage scale?

Communication is a major part of EVERY human endeavor, if you can't 
communicate clearly in written or verbal genres, the only avenue left is 
violence. (That will get you a long stay in the county lockup with a guy 
named Tiny that thinks you got a really pretty mouth.)

It is actually an insult to send someone poorly written or mis-spelled 
correspondence.  When you send someone a note or a letter, you are 
asking for them to invest their time and attention to read, and 
hopefully, ACT on the contents.

If it is not worth your time to make sure the note or letter is clear, 
concise and does not contain any spelling or grammatical errors, why is 
it worth their time to read it?

In fact, it takes the reader longer to read a poorly written letter than 
it does to  read a good one, because the reader has to keep stopping and 
going back to reread grammatically incorrect passages to try to 
determine the true meaning.

Here is an example related to computers, I worked with a lady that had 
been promoted from computer operator to system programmer.  Her written 
communication skills may have been acceptable as an operator, but they 
were substandard as a system programmer.  She would send us instructions 
like,
     "Please remember too input the correct date when preforming an IPL!"

and then she would get upset when we didn't understand or properly 
follow her instructions.

I don't know about must of you, but while I have done literally 
thousands of IPL's, not counting the 'doze three finger salute, I have 
NEVER had to PRE-FORM an IPL.  Hmmm, must be something knew!

I usually just pressed the button and typed in the date and load 
parameters, so it didn't register to me that the instructions even 
applied to me.  I just mentally filed away the fact that you ALSO had to 
enter the date for a PRE-FORMed IPL.

It wasn't until a couple of weeks later that I asked about the 
'PRE-FORMed' IPL process that I understood the point of her note, which 
was asking us to please double check that the date was typed correctly 
before we hit enter!

crash3m at trelane.net wrote:

> which is more importent spelling capitilzasion punctootasion grammer.
> im not sure myself?
> :P
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> On 25 Jul 2002 17:12:31 -0500
> Bill Cavalieri <bcavalieri at gekl.net> wrote:
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>>5pELL1NG i5 0VeRra+3D.  
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>>I don't spell check when sending informal messages, as most of the
>>digital aged don't.
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>>-Bill
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>>On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 16:05, J. Eric Gilliland wrote:
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>>>No offense to mac ten, but any email requesting work should
>>>probably be run through a spell checker before sending.
>>>
>>>Eric Gilliland
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>>>--- mac ten <dlegion at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>>greetings,
>>>>Is there anyone in the group that is in a position to
>>>>hire an assistant or trainee.  Im looking to gain some
>>>>job experience with linux or unix.
>>>>
>>>>I have no collage degree's but I do have some
>>>>knowledge of pc technology.  Classes I took in high
>>>>school where intro to business, intro to Q-Basic,
>>>>desktop publishing and design and I took a pc
>>>>specialist course which covered MS Windows 98 and pc
>>>>hardware fundimentals.
>>>>
>>>>The two career feilds Im interested in are pc
>>>>technology and conservation. At this point I know more
>>>>about computers then I know about conservation.
>>>>
>>>>Like I said Im just looking to get more of a feel for
>>>>linux and I thought if I was able to be in a position
>>>>to work around people who know what their doing on a
>>>>regular basis I might catch on to it.
>>>>
>>>>Thank You.
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>
>>>=====
>>>J. Eric Gilliland
>>>patzeric at yahoo.com
>>>And gentlemen in England now a-bed
>>>Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
>>>And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
>>>That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
>>>                                  Henry V Act 4 Scene 3
>>>
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>>>Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better
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