On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Chris Wilson <[email protected]<chris%[email protected]> > wrote:
> Although to be honest I think we'd better get used to it than try to > change their ways. The future belongs to them, not to us. > > while looking through CV's a while back, hoping to get the best of the best in a given techie position, the first criterion to dismiss applicants was the content contained in their CV. The future may belong to young folk, but poor writing does not mean they will take up the positions to have it belong to them. I think there needs to be a distinction between writing out a chat to a friend and jotting down a *formal* writing or, as some put it these days, a semi-formal writing. It is really shaming for a country that has one of the highest rating of literacy rates (76%) to have someone write something like this to their lecturer. As someone pointed out, spell checkers and dictionaries embedded in almost all our electronic composers have left many useless in correct writing of words, let alone their pronunciation. Chat lingo has crippled whats left of good writing. If I were you, Bagyenda, I would probably print out the email and take 10 minutes out of the next class to distinguish between a formal writing and a writing to a drinking friend. Ignoring this does not help the student and many others like him. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ------------------------------------------------------------
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