Poor Spelling and Grammar May Mean Freelance Writing Jobs
A hew and cry has again gone up about the state of both spelling and grammar in the United States. If youre willing to put up with advertising and use Internet Explorer, you can watch MSNs Brian Williams do a rather cute report about the desperate state of language at http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=e6f8e7be-43eb-4603-bb9f-74e61d795042&a%20mp;t=&f=34/64&p=
Williams blames computers in part for the problem particularly email and text messaging. I happen to think more blame can be found in the sorry state of our schools, but thats another subject.
Williams also says that the costs of this problem to business is something like 3 billion dollars, although he doesnt state why or how it costs that much. He does, however, talk about corporations who are teaching their employees proper spelling and grammar. Who better than freelance writers to teach these classes? At least writers who know the technical details or writing can. It also strikes me that all this press means we should be able to write helpful articles for the trades about writing well.
It also strikes me that if youre doing corporate writing, some nod to this concern could be included in your next proposal perhaps you could propose a workshop, or offer to edit for a department or other group.
Surely theres a way to take advantage of all this press.
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