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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
As someone who actively grades papers for university students, you all are just touching the top of the iceberg. It’s way worse than you could imagine, and without software like Grammerly out there much of the writing would be illegible.
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Originally Posted by GirlySports
How did this happen? Just a reliance of technology? I think most of us here could write fairly well in high school*.
*I assume the majority of CPers were born between 75 and 85.
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Grad 85 here, and at the time UAlberta had all incoming students write an essay early in the first term since students coming out of high school struggled so much. If you did not pass you had to take a remedial writing class. I think it's been an ongoing issue for some time.