Comments on: Do Australian students have a ‘problem’ with writing? https://www.campusreview.com.au/2020/10/do-australian-students-have-a-problem-with-writing/ The latest in higher education news Sun, 11 Jun 2023 06:34:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Russell Daylight https://www.campusreview.com.au/2020/10/do-australian-students-have-a-problem-with-writing/#comment-98364 Sun, 11 Jun 2023 06:34:41 +0000 https://www.campusreview.com.au/?p=103602#comment-98364 What a bizarre article. It mixes up evidence from NAPLAN, HSC English, and university essays. Your conclusion is very bold: “So, besides a decline in a dubious test such as NAPLAN, is there a systemic writing problem among Australia’s youth? The evidence doesn’t seem to support it.”

If you think the literacy problems at tertiary level are limited to misplaced apostrophes then you are wildly misinformed. Please see the source of my comments for greater detail on the type of literacy issues that emerge in first-year university student writing: https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/lnj/article/view/6672

Russell Daylight
Lecturer in English
Charles Sturt University

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