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So NYU (School of Professional Studies) is offering a MS program in Professional Writing and they have this grammar error here:
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Offering maximum location flexibility, the fully online MS in Professional Writing program is 36 credits and can be completed in full-time or part-time study. Mirroring the increasingly digital, global, and collaborative landscape of today’s professional world, our online program brings together faculty and students as part of an interactive learning community that fosters professional development, project management, and graduate-level expertise.
Offering maximum location flexibility, the fully online MS in Professional Writing program is 36 credits and can be completed in full-time or part-time study.
How are you going to offer a MS in Professional Writing and yet double your paragraph on your website? That doesn't look like professional writing to me.
In addition, NYU has an online Speech Pathology program and I contacted them to get more info on it. They incessantly contact me in a way that feels similar to a sales call. Things like this can be discouraging in my pursuit for higher education. Seems like this is just a money grab.
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So you're going to judge an entire school and an entire program based on an error created by a web designer who may not even work for the university (and definitely doesn't work for the program)?
And as far as something feeling like a money grab- it's a business, and it's in business to make money. True, it's a not-for-profit, meaning there are no shareholders, but that doesn't make it any less of an enterprise whose goal is to bring in as much money as possible in order to further its own objectives.
There's a rough world waiting out there for you if these are what you consider to be "issues".
So NYU (School of Professional Studies) is offering a MS program in Professional Writing and they have this grammar error here:
"Offering maximum location flexibility, the fully online MS in Professional Writing program is 36 credits and can be completed in full-time or part-time study. Mirroring the increasingly digital, global, and collaborative landscape of today’s professional world, our online program brings together faculty and students as part of an interactive learning community that fosters professional development, project management, and graduate-level expertise.
Offering maximum location flexibility, the fully online MS in Professional Writing program is 36 credits and can be completed in full-time or part-time study. Mirroring the increasingly digital, global, and collaborative landscape of today’s professional world, our online program brings together faculty and students as part of an interactive learning community that fosters professional development, project management, and graduate-level expertise."
How are you going to offer a MS in Professional Writing and yet double your paragraph on your website? That doesn't look like professional writing to me.
In addition, NYU has an online Speech Pathology program and I contacted them to get more info on it. They incessantly contact me in a way that feels similar to a sales call. Things like this can be discouraging in my pursuit for higher education. Seems like this is just a money grab.
It's not a grammar error, it's a composition error, or in other words, a careless cut-and-paste job. But yes, your point still stands. And what's "graduate level writing", anyway? If you haven't learned good writing by grad school, you'd be better off going back to school, and doing an English major. Or redoing one, but in a better school.
So you're going to judge an entire school and an entire program based on an error created by a web designer who may not even work for the university (and definitely doesn't work for the program)?
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Yes. . Of course this raises questions of: who wrote the text in the first place? Are you saying the program directors or staff left the writing of the description to a web designer, who may not even work for the program? Possibly an out-sourced task? And that no one on staff thought to proofread the web designer's work? I think anyone debating where to put their hard-earned money for a graduate program would consider those to be red flags.
I think it's a silly reason not to go to a good school. The department people don't make their own brochures and ads, they have marketing people who do that. They might never have even seen it.
In addition, NYU has an online Speech Pathology program and I contacted them to get more info on it. They incessantly contact me in a way that feels similar to a sales call. Things like this can be discouraging in my pursuit for higher education. Seems like this is just a money grab.
In case you hadn't noticed, higher education IS a $$$ grab, especially Masters Programs.
I think it's a silly reason not to go to a good school. The department people don't make their own brochures and ads, they have marketing people who do that. They might never have even seen it.
Yes, this is probably a Marketing and/or IT error.
So NYU (School of Professional Studies) is offering a MS program in Professional Writing and they have this grammar error here:
"Offering maximum location flexibility, the fully online MS in Professional Writing program is 36 credits and can be completed in full-time or part-time study. Mirroring the increasingly digital, global, and collaborative landscape of today’s professional world, our online program brings together faculty and students as part of an interactive learning community that fosters professional development, project management, and graduate-level expertise.
Offering maximum location flexibility, the fully online MS in Professional Writing program is 36 credits and can be completed in full-time or part-time study. Mirroring the increasingly digital, global, and collaborative landscape of today’s professional world, our online program brings together faculty and students as part of an interactive learning community that fosters professional development, project management, and graduate-level expertise."
How are you going to offer a MS in Professional Writing and yet double your paragraph on your website? That doesn't look like professional writing to me.
In addition, NYU has an online Speech Pathology program and I contacted them to get more info on it. They incessantly contact me in a way that feels similar to a sales call. Things like this can be discouraging in my pursuit for higher education. Seems like this is just a money grab.
I think one grammatical or spelling error would not dissuade me from sending one of my children to a university, nor would it lower my regard for that university.
As it is, though, I do not think that highly of NYU. They are overpriced and they garner undeserved reputation because they are in NYC.
This online program sounds like a cash cow. They have a number of degrees such as this one. I should add, so does Harvard and numerous other well known schools.
IMO you can get a better, or just as good degree from a less well known and less conflated school for less money.
Although I would not turn down a school that I respected for this sort of mistake, it's not atypical of NYU. And, the program is Professional Writing?
I think one grammatical or spelling error would not dissuade me from sending one of my children to a university, nor would it lower my regard for that university.
As it is, though, I do not think that highly of NYU. They are overpriced and they garner undeserved reputation because they are in NYC.
This online program sounds like a cash cow. They have a number of degrees such as this one. I should add, so does Harvard and numerous other well known schools.
IMO you can get a better, or just as good degree from a less well known and less conflated school for less money.
Although I would not turn down a school that I respected for this sort of mistake, it's not atypical of NYU. And, the program is Professional Writing?
Hmmmm….
Thanks for your input, Sheena. However, NYU School of Professional Studies is not the same as NYU. NYUSPS is like a minor league team for a MLB team. Hence, I answered my own question.
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. Of course this raises questions of: who wrote the text in the first place? Are you saying the program directors or staff left the writing of the description to a web designer, who may not even work for the program? Possibly an out-sourced task? And that no one on staff thought to proofread the web designer's work? I think anyone debating where to put their hard-earned money for a graduate program would consider those to be red flags.
