Why Johnny Still Can’t Write

by Samuel Hux (June 2016)

It is a common lament that most American college students don’t write very well. (It was a common lament fifty years ago—but believe me, it didn’t mean the same thing.) I wish this were their major problem. It has become apparent that their level of cultural sophistication would shame a junior-high student of sixty years ago.  more>>>

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  1. FSU – Freshman English 104 – Jan 1962.

    Professor required one page comp on why you (a student) chose Florida State over a real university.  

    Student wrote at the end of a page full of ramblings "… needless to say I coudn't get in to any other place."

    Professor replied with red marking pencil across the script: "If it's needless to say, why say it? Besides, one glance at you and it's quite apparent the reason you're here instead of Delta State."

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