Monday, January 28, 2013

Blog # 1



In the article “I won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why.”  http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/07/i_wont_hire_people_who_use_poo.html written by Kyle Wiens. According to Mr. Wiens when people who applies to his companies; he would have them take a grammar’s test to see if they qualified for the position or not. He stated that “grammar is credibility” and he also said “Grammar signifies more than just a person’s ability…’ I’ve found that people who make fewer mistakes on a grammar test also make fewer mistakes when they are doing something completely unrelated to writing." I can see how he is trying to comparing a person with good grammar are likely be  better at other things but this is not always true. He also think in-order for the people to get a good job you need to know your grammars or otherwise you will not get hired from any of the companies out there. 

After reading this article I disagree how Mr. Wiens throws the application into the trash if they fails a grammar test. I think this is not fair to the others because by taking a grammar test, it doesn't really prove how much you know about writing. Also we humans make mistakes everyday in our life but we learn from those mistakes.  Another thing i disagree is how he said "good grammar is good business sense." In my opinion i think that good business is having different people with different skills and not to see how good his or her grammars are. Good grammar might help advertising the company and good communication skills between workers. Now that's being said grammar is just a regular process of writing and it doesn't really show how much a person knows his or her work ethic to the company.  

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Practice blog

Hello everyone my name is Ming Mei and I'm 22 year old. I graduated from Henry Sibley High School back in 2010. This is my 3rd year in college and I'm currently going to nursing. Some of the colleges I attend were Mankato state, Metro State and now I ended back at up Inver Hills. I'm hopping to transfer to the U of M next fall and get into their nursing programe. Now you guys know a my education background; lets talk about my hobbies.

Some of the things I like to do are hanging out with friends, jogging/working out, laying on the coach relaxing and I love to travel to different places. A few of the places I went to were Hong Kong, Colorado, Chicago and Las Vegas. I remembered when my friends and I were at Vegas; we would stay up late and go to different casino to gamble. we played the slot machines, blackjack, the roulette and ect...