An email from a teaching assistant for my 300-level class at Cornell University.
I’d say that good writing should be the standard and that poor writing should bring your grade down. I suppose I just expect people to know how to write by the time they get to university…
(via strelau)
Rest assured that most people do not know how to write before they get to university. Indeed, most people who graduate university do not know how to write. Myself included. And I’ve graduated twice.
Where I work, we have a former English teacher and writer of many high-school text books come in to help us with our writing for publication. We have other people come in to help us with writing grants. Oh, we can all string words together and make sentences. But finely crafting an argument in prose is something that takes a great deal of work.
