Most Common Grammatical and Punctuation Errors Made by Undergraduates as Perceived by Business Communication Professors

Despite students having graduated from high schools and having one or two years of English at the college level, business communication professors are still finding that some of their students have not mastered the basic building block of grammar and punctuation. Since employers do not want to hire employees with poor writing skills, business communication professors must use valuable class time reviewing the basic tenets of writing. The purpose of this study was to determine what business communication professors perceived as the most common grammatical and punctuation errors made by their students in business communication courses.