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A recent survey of 120 American corporations [...] by the National Commission on Writing, a panel established by the College Board, concluded that a third of employees in the nation's blue-chip companies wrote poorly and that businesses were spending as much as $3.1 billion annually on remedial training.

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"hI KATHY i am sending u the assignmnet again," one student wrote to her recently. "i had sent you the assignment earlier but i didnt get a respond. If u get this assgnment could u please respond . thanking u for ur cooperation."

I expected this to be a problem, but not to this degree.  I certainly don't see it at my company, with the exception of a certain Bush-backing fellow out East who loved excessive punctuation, but reined it in since someone chided him about it.

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For example, here's a real live student example that just came into the queue five minutes ago:
> Yes, I did but I wish that I could have gotten files in Word instill of
PDF.
> The PDF file would not save on my personal disk for so reason or another.
I
> will be checking to see if several other articles are available this
week.
> Than you for you concerns Walden Liberian and Assistance other Best.