http://www.thepinkladykids.com/articles/how-do-kids-these-days-graduate-college-not-knowing-how-to-spell-correctly Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:51:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.thepinkladykids.com/articles/how-do-kids-these-days-graduate-college-not-knowing-how-to-spell-correctly/comment-page-1#comment-1537 WP Robot Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:36:12 +0000 http://www.thepinkladykids.com/articles/how-do-kids-these-days-graduate-college-not-knowing-how-to-spell-correctly#comment-1537 It is often just sloppiness, and it has gotten worse with the advent of spell-checkers on computers and now with textspeak. The one which drives me crazy, since I teach marketing, is the number of students who use "add" as an abbreviation for advertisement. I keep suggesting to them that since they are in the field, they should at least be able to spell a common, two-letter word like "ad" correctly! It is often just sloppiness, and it has gotten worse with the advent of spell-checkers on computers and now with textspeak. The one which drives me crazy, since I teach marketing, is the number of students who use “add” as an abbreviation for advertisement. I keep suggesting to them that since they are in the field, they should at least be able to spell a common, two-letter word like “ad” correctly!

]]> http://www.thepinkladykids.com/articles/how-do-kids-these-days-graduate-college-not-knowing-how-to-spell-correctly/comment-page-1#comment-1538 ivy1988 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:36:12 +0000 http://www.thepinkladykids.com/articles/how-do-kids-these-days-graduate-college-not-knowing-how-to-spell-correctly#comment-1538 It's often just laziness on part of the student. It's not necessarily the college diploma, but their foundations in English way back in grade school is what matters the most. When they have a shaky foundation, they can't build on that, thus their English skills are quite poor. Not to mention the technology of spell-checkers and whatnot doesn't help one bit when you're trying to learn the nuts and bolts of a language. It's so sad, I've read so many papers for friends and are riddle with grammar, punctuation and language mistakes it's ridiculous! It’s often just laziness on part of the student. It’s not necessarily the college diploma, but their foundations in English way back in grade school is what matters the most. When they have a shaky foundation, they can’t build on that, thus their English skills are quite poor. Not to mention the technology of spell-checkers and whatnot doesn’t help one bit when you’re trying to learn the nuts and bolts of a language. It’s so sad, I’ve read so many papers for friends and are riddle with grammar, punctuation and language mistakes it’s ridiculous!

]]> http://www.thepinkladykids.com/articles/how-do-kids-these-days-graduate-college-not-knowing-how-to-spell-correctly/comment-page-1#comment-1539 Belie Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:36:12 +0000 http://www.thepinkladykids.com/articles/how-do-kids-these-days-graduate-college-not-knowing-how-to-spell-correctly#comment-1539 Generalizations are fun! Generalizations are fun!

]]> http://www.thepinkladykids.com/articles/how-do-kids-these-days-graduate-college-not-knowing-how-to-spell-correctly/comment-page-1#comment-1540 Free Wordpress Plugins Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:36:12 +0000 http://www.thepinkladykids.com/articles/how-do-kids-these-days-graduate-college-not-knowing-how-to-spell-correctly#comment-1540 At my school, at least, because everything has to be typed, nobody has to know how to spell. As a person who spells fairly well, it drives me crazy. Even on in-class essays, professors will say that "as long as you're close, spelling doesn't matter". I've only had ONE non-English professor who took off for stupid spelling mistakes like you've described. Spell check has eliminated the need to spell, and it is sad. At my school, at least, because everything has to be typed, nobody has to know how to spell. As a person who spells fairly well, it drives me crazy. Even on in-class essays, professors will say that “as long as you’re close, spelling doesn’t matter”. I’ve only had ONE non-English professor who took off for stupid spelling mistakes like you’ve described.
Spell check has eliminated the need to spell, and it is sad.

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