Intelligence in college kids is abysmal these days.

[spunkz]

Originally posted by: episodic
Is there some unwritten rule that you can't simply flunk those that can't write? I seem to remember something about -10 per every major mistake when I went to college. 5 mistakes - they got an F.

5 or 6 mistakes for an F is the usual policy for a long paper, but this sounds like a short essay. i remember doing case studies in sociology as a weekly assignment. i started out making them nice and neat but when you realize you can get by just writing them real fast that morning or in the previous class, then you start not caring.

 

[Corporate Thug]

bust out the red pen...

 

[Zap Brannigan]

Originally posted by: CollectiveUnconscious
I'm sitting here, alone, on a Friday night, and find myself grading papers for my Motivation (Psychology) class. The more I read, the greater my frustration with my students, who are all juniors and seniors, becomes. They have no sense of spelling, grammar, or coherency. These are major mistakes, not miniscule. An example:

Case studies have been done to single individuals who draw general conclusions about behavior. This is common for a individual come across or couples face such as marriage.

I'm losing my mind. I cannot believe that these kids have made it this far in college writing crap like this. What the hell is going on in high schools? Obviously, it is not learning.

Students in a motivation class not motivated enough to proof read or spell check? Interesting........lol

 

[Zap Brannigan]

You're fired! lol

 

[desteffy]

welcome to the "every single person needs to go to college" era

 

[spanner]

Do you care to try and translate what the original quote should have said cos I have no idea. When I was a TA I usually paid no attention to technicalities and typos as long as it was comprehensible. Also how many of those people are taking the class just to fullfill some out of major curriculum requirements? In other words, do they even care? I know I wouldn't care about crap I would rather forget once I am done with the class (I am thinking back to my 'gardens through history' class I had to take as an engineering major. They wouldn't even buy the book back).

 

[Xyclone]

We read and analyzed this essay in our AP English class. It's a good read, and agrees with what you guys are saying. Read it!

 

[CRXican]

my writing skills are excellent and I just graduated from college

Journalism major though so if I can't write then ...

 

[Fingolfin269]

What I find most disturbing is that today's college girl tends to act more like high school girls. Like oh my gosh!

 

[CRXican]

oh and chances are they aren't stupid, just very very lazy