[NPInfo] Grammar

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I agree.? Feel free not to bother me with correct grammar when I am quickly responding to a message online.? Grammar be damned, I say!!? It in no way reflects on our overall intellect or professionalism.



LOL while consulting my English book



Arlene Jones


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff and Linda Bocchetto <lmbjsb57 at msn.com>
To: npinfo at nurse.net
Sent: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:43 pm
Subject: Re: [NPInfo] Grammar



I could agree if the topics posted were going to a publisher or writing a letter to a public official or drug company. However, I fail to see the necessity of perfectly correct format on an informal internet electronic board which is intended to provide support to a group of NPs and PAs. I believe many of the responses are quickly typed and sent and we should be intelligent enough to make a mental correction to grammer/spelling, if needed, to understand the context of the message.?
Linda B, NP?
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>From: Margienp at aol.com?
>Reply-To: NP Info <npinfo at nurse.net>?
>To: npinfo at nurse.net, np-clinical at nurse.net, acc-circle at listserve.com?
>Subject: Re: [NPInfo] Grammar?
>Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 08:23:23 EST?
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>Hello all,?
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>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:?
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>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.?
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>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. . . .?
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>"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."?
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>Linda Marie?
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