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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Unfortunately, the owner of the shop was one of the people who get caught up in the form and not in the content. He lost out on getting a model employee who could do the needed work simply because he paid more attention to spelling and grammar rather than content.
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This case is precisely why composition instructors have a moral duty to help their students become better writers not only in content but also in execution.
The world can be a prejudicial place, and I would do my students no favors by allowing them to continue believing that no one will judge them as slow, stupid, or incompetent upon seeing that they cannot even take the time to proofread.