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The Literate Business Student by Wayne Smith languages are also inundated with examples of bad writing. Prob- lems often are exacerbated by the complexities of the language, cultural difficulties, and the abbreviated writing style inspired by texting and tweeting. A Many institutions attempt to improve student writing by offering resources such as learning management soft- ware, online and offline study guides, library chat support, instructional videos, and Facebook, Twitter, and RSS feeds. Yet, in my experience, none of these efforts significantly improves the written skills of most business students. Worse, students might erroneously believe that tech-based resources such as spelling and grammar checkers are actually helping them, when too often they substitute one writing problem for another. Poor student writing can be dramatically improved when business professors devote small portions of class time to helping students learn to spot and eliminate common errors in composition. ny conversation with business school colleagues almost invariably turns to the deplorable state of student writ- ing. I know that students struggle to compose papers in English, and I imagine professors teaching in other 42 BizEd MARCH/APRIL 2011