If you want to be a writer or a journalist, at the very basic, you should be able to WRITE. Understandably not everyone will be able to churn out beautiful prose in the beginning. However, at the very least, you should be able to string a decent sentence together, and it should make sense. If you can't even do that, better consider another career option. I can cope with a certain amount of grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, however if I am going to have to rewrite your entire story because you can't write for nuts, its time for you to do some serious soul-searching on why you decided to be a writer in the first place. No doubt some subject matters can be somewhat technical to put across, but that is what your job as a writer and communicator is all about. To take something complex and simplify it for your reader. What I cannot stand is lazy writers. These are people who make no effort to understand what they are planning to write about, and just load a couple of words to...