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In her 26 years of teaching English, Shannon McCuire has seen countess misplaced commas, misspelled words and sentence fragments
In her 26 years of teaching English, Shannon McCuire has seen countess misplaced commas, misspelled words and sentence fragments
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2010-02-21
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In her 26 years of teaching English, Shannon McCuire has seen countess misplaced commas, misspelled words and sentence fragments.
But the instructor at US’s Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge said her job is getting harder every day.
"I kid you not, the number of errors that I’ve seen in the past few years have multiplied five times," she said.
Experts say e-mail and instant messaging are at least partly to blame for an increasing indifference toward the rules of grammar, spelling and sentence structure.
They say the problem is most noticeable in college students and recently graduates.
"They used to at least feel guilty (about mistakes)," said Naomi Baron, professor of linguistics at American University in Washington, D.C. "They didn’t necessarily write a little better, but at least they felt guilty."
Ironically, Baron’s latest book, "Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It’s Heading," became a victim of sloppy proofreading. The book’s title is capitalized differently on the cover, spine and title page. "People used to lose their jobs over this," she said. "And now they just say ’whatever.’"
"Whatever" describes Jeanette Henderson’s attitude toward writing. The sophomore at the University of Louisiana at Monroe admits that her reliance on spellcheck has hurt her grades in English class. "Computer has spoiled us," she said.
But the family and consumer sciences major believes her future bosses won’t mind the mistakes as much as her professor does. "They’re not going to check semicolons, commas and stuff like that," Henderson said.
LSU’s McGuire said she teaches her students to use distinct writing styles that fit their purpose.
She emphasizes that there’s the informal language of an e-mail to a friend, but there’s also the well thought out and structured academic or professional style of writing.
It’s not just e-mail and instant messaging that are contributing to slack writing habits.
Society as a whole is becoming more informal. Casual wear at work used to be reserved for Friday, for example, but is now commonplace at most offices. There’s also a greater emphasis on youth culture, and youth tend to use instant messaging more than adults do.
English language has been neglected at different points in history but always rebounds. During Shakespearen times, for example, spoiling wasn’t considered important, and early publishers rarely proofread.
There will likely be a social force that recognizes the need for clear writing and swings the pendulum back.
According to the passage, sloppy writing ______.
选项
A、parallels a social tendency of being informal
B、worries students as well as professors
C、is taken as trivial by employers
D、is ignored in all business concerned sciences
答案
A
解析
倒数第四段说,这种不认真严谨的书写风气不仅是由于电子邮件和即时短信的普遍应用,而是因为整个社会正向着一个越来越随意、非正规的趋势发展。所以只有A正确。
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