[NPInfo] Grammar

[Havens, Shelby]

Margie et al:

In all fairness to masters-prepared nurses, I don't think the grammar
issue is unique to our profession. My older sister was a catalog
librarian at a major university for 25 years. She often talked about
receiving dissertations and theses (already defended!) with spelling and
grammatical errors in the title or abstract. She would have to correct
the errors in order to get the documents cataloged and into the
electronic library databases. Fortunately, her undergraduate degree was
in English and it was easy for her to do.

Best Regards,

Shelby Havens, ARNP
      

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Hello all,
 
I agree with the poster below.
I am a Director, at a large health care co., and I am appalled at a
select  
group of Master Prepared Nurses, writing skills.
Have a great day.
Margie
In a message dated 1/31/2008 6:24:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
lindamarie76 at msn.com writes:

I'm  going to chime in here with my two cents. As some of you know,  I
occasionally send private e-mails to posters who use incorrect grammar.
My
biggest pet peeve is the incorrect use of apostrophes. Unfortunately, I
am
seeing this more and more frequently (advertisements, CNN, Fox News,
etc.).
However, one place I never see it is in medical journals,  physicians'
letters, Peg Fitzgerald's documents, etc.



I was  a Teachers' Assistant for the baccalaureate nursing program at
Florida
Atlantic University. The students had to submit a journal every  week. I
never saw such horrible writing. If I could have failed students  for
writing
I would have. I sent many students to the Writing Center on  campus for
help
with basic sentence structure and punctuation use. At the  end of the
semester I explained my rationales to the students and it  sounded very
similar to this. . . . 



"If NPs and PAs want  the public, drug companies, AMA, collaborating
physicians etc. to respect  us and see us for the professionals that we
are.
.then we should try to  remember things like spell check, punctuation
and
basic writing skills.  After all, what does it say for earning a
Master's
Degree if one cannot  even construct a sentence in English. If English
is not
ones native  language, it is even more important to proof-read and make
sure
posts are  understandable."





Respectfully,



Linda  Marie

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