Thursday, August 27, 2009

What Should Colleges Teach? (Opinion)

http://www.universitybusiness.com/newssummary.aspx?news=yes&postid=20178

A few years ago, when I was grading papers for a graduate literature course, I became alarmed at the inability of my students to write a clean English sentence. They could manage for about six words and then, almost invariably, the syntax (and everything else) fell apart. I became even more alarmed when I remembered that these same students were instructors in the college’s composition program. What, I wondered, could possibly be going on in their courses?

What do you think colleges should teach?

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