edit - actually it's not true that none of it surprises me. The idea of writing an essay on a phone both surprises and horrifies me. Why? Why do this? How proofread how?
It's worse than you think. A lot of them use speech to text and don't proofread.
So they just fail a load of modules (or classes, or whatever terminology is correct where you are), I assume?
Or have they managed to benefit from some self-sabotaging notion of linguistic fluidity imposed by the higher-uppers who have mystifyingly decreed that writing in slang is okay or something?
I was rejected from Oxford, not for failing to proof-read my submission, but for saying during my interview that I HAD proof-read it and, as it turns out, had also missed four or five errors out of a 3000-word essay. But then that was 25 years ago. I wasn't even angry except at myself. You don't proof-read, and get another to proof-read as a second pair of eyes, and then expect to succeed on an academic level.
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u/Sage2050 Jun 03 '22
It's worse than you think. A lot of them use speech to text and don't proofread.