Tweeting texting and e-mailing all may foster a habit of

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Tweeting, texting, and e-mailing all may foster a habit of composing sloppy messages. Author Mark Garvey argues, “In business, in education, in the arts, in any writing that takes place outside the linguistic "cul-de-sac" of our close friends and relatives, writers are expected to reach for certain standards of clarity, concision, and care.”1

What did Garvey mean? Do you agree? Why do you think a different standard of writing might be appropriate and expected in the workplace than with your friends? Do you think it is just "common sense" or is there more to it - perhaps a minimum standard that everyone should be taught?

[See Garvey, M. (2009). Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style. New York: Simon & Schuster.]

1Garvey, M. (2009, October 31). Fifty years of simplicity as style. The Wall Street Journal, p. A19.

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