Warp wrote:
>   Quite amazingly, this seems to be so even in academic circles. Well,
> at least here.

Yah. And I've found most marketing people, many of whose jobs it is to 
write, have little or no grasp of simple things like sentence construction.

It just takes lots of practice and correction. I was fortunate to go to 
a grade school (as in, first through 12th grade) where they actually 
hammered on you ever single week to get you to improve. You started with 
"here's a topic, take it home, and bring back a one-page essay about it 
next week." It ended with "take a seat, here's your topic, you have 20 
minutes for a 2-page-with-outline essay discussing the topic."

I think the Ph.D. stuff (at least in the USA) is much more about 
reading, writing, and presenting than it is about the actual field of 
research.  Maybe places like MIT teach you more technical stuff in the 
PhD degree than the Masters degree, but that isn't the case in any of 
the places where I or my friends went.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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