[NPInfo] Grammar

[David Mittman]

Hi Everyone: I have been watching this develop.
I went to school in Brooklyn. Hardly learned English. Never took  
typing (would have been beat up if I had). But I have made a  
wonderful living by communicating to and learning from my colleagues.  
I agree with Chris that we all need to communicate succinctly and  
clearly. We are judged by what we write. BUT, I do not want people  
correcting my grammar. If you want to do that go on an English  
teacher's list serve.
Hugs,
Dave

On Feb 1, 2008, at 12:59 PM, stephanie2u at optonline.net wrote:

> 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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