Good Writing is Important!

rogersgeorge on April 9th, 2016

It’s not plagiarism if you give credit, is it? I ran into this answer on Quora, and it’s worth repeating. The writer, by the way claims to be “Jayme Self, Founder, www.englishedits.com.” Based on this alone, I thought it must be a pretty good site. However, the link in the Quora item goes to a URL farm that says that that URL is for sale. Perhaps the link has a typo (horrors!) Just the same, I quote the entire Quora answer:

Spelling and grammar really, really matter.

One (totally unscientific) study –  Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data  – found that “typos and grammatical errors matter more than anything else” on the resume when screening and hiring candidates.

A few other fun facts:

  • 49% of hiring managers will not consider a candidate whose résumé has spelling or grammar errors. [1]
  • People recall 20% more facts from correct writing than from writing with errors. [2]
  • On average, participants took over 6 times longer to read articles with grammatical errors than correct articles of the same length.[2]
  • Grammatical errors are associated with high mental effort.[2]
  • 75% of people said that errors in writing make the author less trustworthy. [3]

Even better, one online entrepreneur in the UK found that a single typo can cut online sales in half [4], and we’ve also done tests at English Edits where we found that, on average, fixing a single typo on a Google Adwords ad increased CTR 85%.

So, think about that next time you’re applying for a job or sending in a business proposal. And definitely have someone else give it a second look!

I feel validated!

 

One Response to “Good Writing is Important!”

  1. Very interesting…

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