Dr Bernard Lamb, a tutor at Imperial College London, was so shocked by the poor spelling, punctuation and grammar of the students on his genetics course that he started logging their mistakes. According to The Observer, he plans to publish them in the journal of the Queen’s English Society.
  I understand how he feels. I got an email recently from someone who said he was finishing an MA in journalism and looking around for possible vacancies. He concluded:
I have a degree in Spanish and Portuguese, which along with French, I speak fluently. I have lived and worked abroad on numerous occasions both in Europe and Latin America –It’s all on my CV wihich i’ve take the liberty of attaching.
If there any positions that come up that you think might be suitable please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
  I’ve hesitated. Indeed, mistakes in emails I receive from hopeful students are so common that I’m in danger of turning into a grumpy old grammarian. So I was delighted, on looking through gap-year articles we are publishing this weekend, to find one from 19-year-old Katie Revell that’s better than some of the copy we get from so-called experienced freelances. There’s hope for us yet.