{"id":815,"date":"2004-12-08T00:07:21","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T00:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2004-12-08T00:07:21","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T00:07:21","slug":"corporate_illit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Illiteracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/What+corporate+America+cant+build+a+sentence\/2100-1030_3-5481494.html\">Sam Dillon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i> R. Craig Hogan, a former university professor who heads an online school for business writing here, received an anguished e-mail message recently from a prospective student.<br \/>\n&#8220;i need help,&#8221; said the message, which was devoid of punctuation. &#8220;i am writing a essay on writing i work for this company and my boss want me to help improve the workers writing skills can yall help me with some information thank you&#8221;.<br \/>\nHundreds of inquiries from managers and executives seeking to improve their own or their workers&#8217; writing pop into Hogan&#8217;s computer in-basket each month, he says, describing a number that has surged as e-mail has replaced the phone for much workplace communication. Millions of employees must write more frequently on the job than previously. And many are making a hash of it.<br \/>\n&#8220;E-mail is a party to which English teachers have not been invited,&#8221; Hogan said. &#8220;It has companies tearing their hair out.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Dillon: R. Craig Hogan, a former university professor who heads an online school for business writing here, received an anguished e-mail message recently from a prospective student. &#8220;i need help,&#8221; said the message, which was devoid of punctuation. &#8220;i am writing a essay on writing i work for this company and my boss want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}