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You’re assuming a baseline at or above those intro courses. I’ve had engineers who don’t know how paragraphs work, or whose vocabulary and reading comprehension
by throwawaygh 6y ago
You’re assuming a baseline at or above those intro courses. I’ve had engineers who don’t know how paragraphs work, or whose vocabulary and reading comprehension seems to have stunted at middle school.
Those people are usually stuck as juniors without formal education because they’re not at the point where self-teaching is possible.
Ymmv
- ThrowawayR2 6y ago> "You’re assuming a baseline at or above those intro courses. I’ve had engineers who don’t know how paragraphs work, or whose vocabulary and reading comprehension seems to have stunted at middle school." If they're that poorly educated, then they'll be floundering in college humanities courses too so I'm not sure how that's a counterargument. Spending credit-hours on remedial English courses is even worse value for money.
- throwawaygh 6y agothe engineer’s second line probably isn’t so interested in playing comp 101 TA.