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I just finished reading an article by David Wallace on Search Engine Guide titled “Are Your Web Pages Haunted — That Is With Grammar Errors?”

Short though it is, it hits on all those common and all too frequent and inexcusable errors that make us all look like slugs.

Enjoy and happy writing!

I teach college writing: I teach students at all levels from freshman to graduates students, and what I see in today’s classroom makes me want to cry. Bottom line — a majority of students today simply can’t write. They don’t know a noun from a verb. They don’t know how to construct a complete sentence. They don’t know how to puntutate. They don’t know what passive voice is and why you shouldn’t use it. And the list goes on and on and on.

What is really heartbreaking about this is that so much communication in today’s world is now based on text — written communication in the forms of websites, email, chat rooms,. listservs, and so on. If we are then propelling this non-writing populace into the world, what are the potential ramifications for society, culture, government, business, religion, education, and more?

Anyway, scary stuff. Right now I do as much as I can by teaching students, courses in which grammar and structure beome a far greater percentage of the course than they should be.