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Tragic Dearth of Writing Skills

10.14.2006 · Posted in Uncategorized

I teach college writing: I teach students at all levels from freshman to graduates students, and what I see in today’s classroom makes me want to cry. Bottom line — a majority of students today simply can’t write. They don’t know a noun from a verb. They don’t know how to construct a complete sentence. ...