Click here to read today's New York Times-sponsored debate on the question of whether schools are undervaluing grammar, given that employers may rule out applicants with sloppy writing. Is there a problem with the employers (who are too old-fashioned) or is the problem with the schools (who disregard real-world challenges faced by those who don't master the basic norms of Standard Edited English)?
In a column published in today's New York Times, "Draft: The Point of Exclamation," Ben Yagoda observes that "in a time of exclamation inflation, it seems that a sentence without blingy punctuation comes across like a whisper."
