Are Writing Deficiencies Creating a Lost Generation of Business Writers?

Autor/inn/en	Quible, Zane K.; Griffin, Frances
Titel	Are Writing Deficiencies Creating a Lost Generation of Business Writers?
Quelle	In: Journal of Education for Business, 83 (2007) 1, S.32-36 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0883-2323
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Employment Qualifications; College Graduates; Writing Skills; English; Writing Improvement; Writing (Composition); Business; Error Correction; Error Patterns; College Students; Communication Skills; Grammar; Teaching Methods; Grading; Sentences; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; English language; Englisch; Schreibübung; Business studies; Wirtschaft; Betriebswirtschaft; Korrektur; Fehlertyp; Collegestudent; Kommunikationsstil; Grammatik; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Notengebung; Schulnote; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; USA
Abstract	Business professionals and instructors often view writing skills as one of the most important qualifications that employees should possess. However, many business employees, including recent college graduates, have serious writing deficiencies, especially in their ability to use standard English. As a result, American businesses spend billions of dollars annually to remediate these writing deficiencies (College Board, the National Commission on Writing for America's Families, Schools, and Colleges, 2004). In this article, the authors examine possible reasons for these deficiencies and offer evidence that a modified context-based approach, the glossing approach, and consistent error marking can reduce the number of sentence-level errors students make. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10