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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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Here's an excerpt (with certain identifying marks removed) from an email a member of the sales staff sent to all staff a few years ago. (Actually, you may have seen this already, since I think I sent it to the FROST-BOB mailing list at the time.) The interesting thing about it is that the salesperson appears to have actually taken some pains with the letter, going as far as to run a spellchecker on it, which I can tell you was something that this particular individual was not in the habit of doing. (They're all real words! I swear!)

Dear Staff,

I would like to share an experience in which I had with the CCRA Canadian Customs/Regency Agency this past week in Ottawa, Canada.

I initially went to this customer site with the understanding that they have a need to [REDACTED]. Unknown to me once I arrived I was informed that there would be not 25 people, but 45-50. (Big Showing), and in fact it took place at the Prim Ministers Chretien Conference Quarters.

This client had invited all Providences to this meeting to learn and experience the [REDACTED] products and Services. They had two Interrupters as well as a sign language personal on hand. The setup was similar to the octagon shape meeting place of the Pentagon.

I had a chance to mingle with the Prime Minister Chretien, who also attended as well as introduce me to his staff of all invites. It went quite well considering the amount of French was vast in this city.
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