Ask Slashdot: Is the Bar Being Lowered At Universities? 605
An anonymous reader writes "I am in my late 20s, live in the U.S., work in the IT industry, and am going to school to upgrade from an associate's degree to a bachelor's degree. One of my classes is a web-based course that requires students to write blogs. I am not attending one of those questionable for-profit schools. This is a large, state-funded, public university. In this course I have noticed poor writing skills are the norm rather than the exception. It is a 3rd year course, so students should have successfully completed some sort of writing course prior to this one. Blog posts, which students are graded on, tend to be very poorly written. They are not organized into paragraphs, have multiple run-on sentences, and sometimes don't make sense. I do not know what grades they are receiving for these posts. Slashdot, is what I am seeing the exception, or the norm? Is the bar being lowered for university students, or am I just expecting too much?"
its normal (Score:5, Funny)
dont you no most people dont rite good
Ummm (Score:5, Funny)
You come to Slashdot to complain about badly written blog posts? Have you even been here before? That's like going into a gay bar to bitch about homosexuality.
Re:US University Education shocked me... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sorry, most of us dumb Americans don't understand the words "lamentable" and "vociferously". Please limit yourself to monosyllables if you intend to get your point across.
Re:Betteridge's Law has been beaten (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It has for undergrad, not so much for the grads (Score:4, Funny)
"They waist 4 years of their lives,..."
Indeed, these years are wasted.
Re:US University Education shocked me... (Score:5, Funny)
Please limit yourself to monosyllables if you intend to get your point across.
I don't know that big word you just used. please use short words.
Re:A friend of mine and I ended up in the same cla (Score:5, Funny)
"It was atrocious. full of endless grammatical errors, punctuation etc. I had to retake the class, because let's face it English grades are subjective."
Alas, you still didn't get that punctuation thingie.
Re:It's been dropping for a long time (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's been dropping for a long time (Score:5, Funny)
but from I saw proper grammar and punctuation
:-)
Re:University Professor Here (Score:2, Funny)
Seems like a high bar to me. Do you need to get a PhD to get a classroom indoors?
Re:Wrong site (Score:4, Funny)
Holy shit, a facebook icon next to a username?
I must be getting old!
Re:Wrong site (Score:5, Funny)
Given the number of /.'ers who don't know the difference between "your" and "you're", or "there", "their" and "they're", or "rogue" and "rouge", I suspect that most /.'ers would consider the current levels of literacy in colleges/universities acceptably high.
Re:Betteridge's Law has been beaten (Score:5, Funny)
Then wouldn't it get harder as it gets lower?
The lower the bar gets, the harder it is to get a good ROI from a college education.
Time to call in James Cameron.