Are professors at all universities seeing big drop in college preparedness?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, because of all of the woke nonsense and indoctrination, no one is taught to read and write anymore. What happens when you arrive at college. You are assigned a "paper". I actually had a freshman ask me "what is a paper".

You lost me at woke.

That's the reason a student can't write?

Do better.

Perhaps more pertinent: Why is someone who’s allegedly a literacy-promoting college professor putting the period outside the quotation marks?

Ha ha … good catch …

Strongly doubt that anti woke PP is a professor given the poor quality, easily disputed and politically charged analysis ….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, because of all of the woke nonsense and indoctrination, no one is taught to read and write anymore. What happens when you arrive at college. You are assigned a "paper". I actually had a freshman ask me "what is a paper".

To be fair, I’m not sure how much the simple assignment of writing a paper will last in higher education with AI capable of writing or aiding kids with writing.

Colleges are going to have to come up with new ways of assessing student knowledge.

My DS is at a liberal arts college and they have to write papers in class. They have to submit their works cited page prior to class and can only write their essays in class on paper. So they do the research first, bring it with them on paper, and then write the paper in class. Many teachers have students do this.

If they’re bringing any material with them on paper to class, that makes it very easy to cheat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, because of all of the woke nonsense and indoctrination, no one is taught to read and write anymore. What happens when you arrive at college. You are assigned a "paper". I actually had a freshman ask me "what is a paper".

You lost me at woke.

That's the reason a student can't write?

Do better.

Perhaps more pertinent: Why is someone who’s allegedly a literacy-promoting college professor putting the period outside the quotation marks?

Perhaps they are British?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, because of all of the woke nonsense and indoctrination, no one is taught to read and write anymore. What happens when you arrive at college. You are assigned a "paper". I actually had a freshman ask me "what is a paper".

To be fair, I’m not sure how much the simple assignment of writing a paper will last in higher education with AI capable of writing or aiding kids with writing.

Colleges are going to have to come up with new ways of assessing student knowledge.

My DS is at a liberal arts college and they have to write papers in class. They have to submit their works cited page prior to class and can only write their essays in class on paper. So they do the research first, bring it with them on paper, and then write the paper in class. Many teachers have students do this.

If they’re bringing any material with them on paper to class, that makes it very easy to cheat.

Not when they show it to the teacher first. It has to match their works cited page exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, because of all of the woke nonsense and indoctrination, no one is taught to read and write anymore. What happens when you arrive at college. You are assigned a "paper". I actually had a freshman ask me "what is a paper".

You lost me at woke.

That's the reason a student can't write?

Do better.

Perhaps more pertinent: Why is someone who’s allegedly a literacy-promoting college professor putting the period outside the quotation marks?

Perhaps they are British?

I’m not an expert on UK style rules, but I don’t think the woke basher is using a standard UK approach to this. I think writers in the UK would put the period at the end of the sentence inside the quotation mark:

https://blog.ciep.uk/punctuating-quotes/

I really wish the FBI would create a tool we could use to figure out which users here are Internet Research Agency ragemaking trainees. Right now, looking for them on DCUM is like doing a crossword puzzle without ever getting to see the solution.