All write. That would be my desire if a genie came out of a bottle and granted me one wish.

World peace? It’s a fantasy. Give me a world in which all could write well. All right?

r u w/ me? lol

I’m not alone as I fret about a generation that types with its thumbs.

Last spring, the National Commission on Writing called for a writing revolution.

Last week, visitors to the Anderson Independent-Mail included the president of a major state university and the executive director of the Anderson Literacy Volunteers. Michael Adams and Lucy Hall represent the two extremes of education, and yet they share a concern about writing.

“The kids who can write well and speak well are the ones who are going to do well,” said Mr. Adams, the distinguished University of Georgia president.

He sees a gap widening between the educated and the uneducated.

“Are we going to develop a two-class society?” he asked. “That’s one of my worries.”

And yet he worries even about his best and brightest. As the chairman of UGA’s Rhodes Scholarship selection committee, he frowns about the flawed writing he sees. His faculty has been instructed to demand good writing, and not just in English classes.

Ms. Hall is battling budget problems as the director of the Anderson Literacy Volunteers. Two fundraisers this year underachieved. This low-profile agency needs your help.

Ms. Hall put out a cry for tutors last month. After we published an editorial, 10 volunteers came forward.

Now the need is for money. Would you consider a donation for a nonprofit organization that teaches adults to read and write? Call (864) 225-7323 to help.

This newspaper has just finished helping AnMed Health with a campaign to raise $25,000 in public donations that will go toward a $100,000 sculpture of hospital founder Jennie Gilmer. Perhaps Ms. Gilmer, the society editor of the Anderson Daily Mail from 1923 to 1930, would have supported a drive for the literacy cause.

My concern includes people who can write. I cringe at the mistakes I see. A dangling pronoun on a recent sheriff’s office incident report made it look as if one man had been charged in an altercation when it actually was the other man. Why is it so hard to understand the difference between a dependent clause and an independent clause and the need to place a comma before one but not the other?

I thank God for Sister Mary Lua, my sixth-grade teacher and a grammar fanatic. I hated diagramming those sentences, but that helped me learn the difference between direct objects and indirect objects.

A recent visit by Jim Rex, the impressive South Carolina superintendent of education, made me feel better. I’m confident that the state of education in our state will improve under his leadership.

My tack would be a back-to-basics currriculum. You read that correctly: three R’s. Reading. ‘Rithmetic. And righting the wrongs about good writing.