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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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When I was in college the scandal was how much retraining the University had to do and how difficult it was to place out of the first-year English Composition class because they knew you almost certainly needed it.

Now the scandal is that these people graduated from college and still can't write.

Zzzzzz.

Personally I think writing well is always worth it. Always, always, always. Not to be confused with the judicious use of locally acceptable slang, wh1ch 1s t3h r0xx0r, y0.