'Objects In Space'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Is anyone suggesting to this friend that she might look at local community colleges for cheaper ways to get the credits, or at least the lower-division stuff?
Yes, at least that was suggested. I tried to point out that if she only wanted to train for a job there are trade schools. If she wants a university degree it means a well rounded education. I think in a few years she will understand why it was important.
Another editor co-signing the plea for engineers and scientists to take writing courses.
Another editor co-signing the plea for engineers and scientists to take writing courses.
How about a class called "Editors: Not Your Slaves, Not Your Enemies"?
Honor thy Copy Editor, who can make drunken scribbling into faultless byline-worthy prose in just one afternoon.
Everybody should take writing courses! Just basic grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling for communication. I got a business email the other day in which someone said she would "defiantly let you know" when something was going to happen.
And that's the kind of thing where spell-check won't save your ass.
My customer base is doctors. Their grammar is as impressive as their hand writing. The emails I get are cringe worthy.
Exactly, Tep.
Asparagus for dinner. Expected results (I have no idea how my mom doesn't know this. She loves asparagus.)
Everybody should take writing courses! Just basic grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling for communication.
Is a basic English class that includes paper-writing techniques not a requirement at most universities? It definitely was at mine. (I tested out of the basics, but then I was an English minor and jumped directly into willingly writing papers on Greek Mythology and Dante's Inferno...)