<p>"None of the veteran Profs/TAs I know who currently teach nor most employers I know would agree with that. It also doesn’t jibe with my own experiences as an academic tutor during my undergrad nor my observations of my TA friends’ freshman essays* while I was visiting them. </p>
<p>From all of that, the consensus seems to be that only a minority of incoming college freshmen, even those at top 30 schools have writing skills adequate for college-level work. Assessments tend to be worse among long serving Profs who taught college before the 1980’s."</p>
<p>If only a minority of incoming college freshman have adequate writing skills - why are they graduating from college? Pretty simple - if they are not prepared, they should fail, no? </p>
<p>Since this is not the case, I am thinking that most students are “adequate”.</p>