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“Catastrophe” of undergraduates who cannot write a basic sentence

British college undergraduates are incapable of composing even the most basic English sentences, according to a damning new report. Authors of the Royal Literacy Fund study found that students had the intellectual capacity to write well but had been let down by their schools’ neglect of good writing. Find this story in the Telegraph (UK).

Posted by David Roberts on 14 March 2006 in Writing

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