hahaha...I use to have such emails sent to me while I was an instructor at MUK. It's funny how you feel like kicking the student when you get such emails. (I'll usually ignore the email completely and when asked by the student if I got their email, I'll tell them to resend in English!). You wonder if the problem is the effects of new trends or is it that students can't differentiate official and unofficial writing.
It's sad because many people fall in the same trap,not even techies. People are often unable to differentiate between just composing an email and composing an application letter via email. We tend to forget all the formalities that were mandatory when writing letters on paper. We don't even end official letters properly anymore! --- Tomslin Blog: http://tomsleen.blogspot.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomslin Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail ________________________________ From: Paul Bagyenda <[email protected]> To: Linux Users Group Uganda <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, October 8, 2009 8:54:49 AM Subject: [LUG] [OT] Should techies have to demonstrate good communication skills? MIT reignites the old debate by nixing the 500-word application essay. Word salad here: http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/10/07/0015204/MIT-Axes-the-500-Word-Application-Essay?art_pos=25 Passion here: http://tech.mit.edu/V129/N39/bayley.html I offer this extract from an email I received the other day from a student. Tweeterised, is what we might start calling it: -- heelo sir , am XXX yo student in YYY i just kindly want to help get acces to the sample test . on ma email inbox, if posble . , i'll be glad wen ma request z put into into yo kind consideration. thx -- Views anyone? P.
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