Re: Writing in the workplace (long)

["Jeanne H. Simpson" <csjhs@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>]

At the risk of annoying a lot of people, I gently note that we
have occasionally had to be reminded not to write essays or long
narrative reports to our deans and provosts.  

When we speak of higher order concerns, sometimes we mean things like
transitions and thesis sentences.   In the workplace, those niceties are
often replaced with bullet points and headings, and properly so.  Nobody
told me about either one of those strategies in freshman comp.  

While I would never argue that grammar should always be first, I would
argue that the kind of reality check that Leigh offers should at least
encourage us to ask ourselves what we might need to do differently.

Jeanne Simpson
csjhs@eiu.edu