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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chainsaw" data-source="post: 4997706" data-attributes="member: 70196">i write financial research for a living. it's published by a major investment bank (yeah, i'm a wall street bad guy). there are a variety of guys on our research team that can't write worth a crap and make all kinds of errors. that's why we have editors - to read through and offer suggestions and make corrections. it's a team effort. the research guy does the analysis, writes up the investment argument, then sends it to the editors, who make sure the piece actually reads well. having said that, if you were interviewing for a job as a research analyst and you submitted an example piece that had errrors in it, you'd be toast - not because we'd assume you couldn't differentiate who/whom (though most in my group probably can't and, honestly, don't need to), but because of what it would imply about the quality of your best work, which is presumably what you'd be submitting.  i'd think there would be similarities in the gaming business. you have to understand the system, generate compelling adventure ideas, then present them in an attractive manner. i would think the excitement factor would be ratcheted up a bit though. what i write is fairly technical - it doesn't need to be and, frankly, can't be particularly "exciting" or else it gets flagged as inflammatory (violates SEC standards, etc). anyway, i've started to wander here and lost my point. let me try to sum up. i agree that grammar's not that important on a daily basis, but if you're competing for a job in a highly competitive industry, you don't want to screw up your application because of grammatical errors.</blockquote>

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