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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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[pobig.livejournal.com]

If only I had examples as coherent as jwgh's to offer. Half the email I read at work makes me want to burst into tears. My boss does OK, but tends to come across as harsh and peremptory. Personally, I've found that it's almost impossible to be too agonizingly detailed and pedantic when sending technical email to someone in another time zone.