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  • Little or no grammar teaching, cell phone texting, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, are all being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can't write.
  • "Thirty per cent of students who are admitted are not able to pass at a minimum level,"
  • Poor grammar is the major reason students fail
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  • "If a student has problems with articles, prepositions, verb tenses, that's a problem."
  • Cellphone texting and social networking on Internet sites are degrading writing skills
  • Barrett says the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
  • Orlando Gonzalez on 12 Aug 13
     
    This article discusses how social networking is hurting the youth of today on how to use proper grammar. "Students seem to have absolutely no idea what an apostrophe is for"
  • Orlando Gonzalez on 12 Aug 13
     
    Schools are not teaching the proper way to use grammar anymore, and with the internet being so dominant our youth today thinks that "U" instead of "YOU" is acceptable etc....
  • Gilbert Lawrence on 13 Aug 13
     
    If you really think about it they don't really push writing in cursive anymore either. It shows how dramatic technology is affecting writing skills.
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