Corporate America Can't Build Sentences

I read an article, "What Corporate America Can't Build: A Sentence" that criticized the writing skills of the successful buisness men and women of America. Not only does the article criticize the unclear, informal messages of buisness people, but also of students. Students contact their teachers in the same informal manner as they do with their friends. This is a problem I have heard from many professors at SMU when I came to orientation. The teachers expressed to the incoming students the importance of writing formally to a teacher even in an email. Using shortened versions of words, not addressing the professor at the beginning of the email, etc. Students need to learn when to seperate their school life with their social life when contacting professors.