And we wonder.......................

.........................................why "college students today can't write":

By 2005, Richard Fulkerson could write of composition, “in point of fact, virtually no one in contemporary composition theory assumes any epistemology other than a vaguely interactionist constructivism. We have rejected quantification and any attempts to reach Truth about our business by scientific means.”

Well, that explains a lot.  Full essay from whence the quote was extracted is here.  My theory is that college students today can't write (assuming that is true) because public grade schools stopped teaching cursive writing about twenty years ago.  What was that about?