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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
OH how I wish that were true!!!  You would not believe some of the papers I have received from students who assure me they were A or B students in high school. . . the "B" must have been for breathing! |
No doubt. And this is probably worse in states where the lowest level of English is labeled "college prep," like a lot of Georgia systems.
I'm sure that some of the kids are unprepared in English, but is there evidence that they are competent in science and math and not in English?
I just haven't seen that many kids who could do advanced math and science who couldn't also write clearly if they applied themselves.
(Not that it was fun for them, but just that if you have logical structure and empirical evidence down, AND you are willing to revise and edit, well, it's not rocket science. So if you really are a rocket scientist. . . Sure it's "hard" compared to what comes naturally to them, but not nearly as "hard" as it would be for the average English major to pop over to Fluid Dynamics. )
Doesn't the free market compensation for English majors vs. hard science majors or engineers kind of bear this out too?