[NPInfo] Grammar

[stephanie2u at optonline.net]

Hey Margie,

What about all those unnecessary commas in YOUR email : )

I'm finding this all very amusing. No one is immune to grammar errors, certainly not me (I). I am just having a little fun reading posts where people make a point of how annoyed they are at one kind of flub, but then make a flub themselves--just a different one from the one they were criticizing. 

Most people are relaxing and not being especially careful of their writing and typing in emails, I find. It's a little more spontaneous than letter writing or professional writing. 

I'm all for people posting to the list. If they have to hesitate because they don't want people pointing our their little dingleberries, there might be fewer people posting and then we would all lose out. 

Stephanie

----- Original Message -----
From: Margienp at aol.com
Date: Friday, February 1, 2008 8:34 am
Subject: Re: [NPInfo] Grammar
To: npinfo at nurse.net, np-clinical at nurse.net, acc-circle at listserve.com

> 
> 
> 
> 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'sDegree 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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