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ILLITERACY
Illiteracy may be considered more as an abstract concept than a condition. When a famous English writer used this word over two hundred years ago, he was actually referring to people (1)_________ could not read Greek or Latin. (2) __________ , it seems unlikely that university examiners had this sort of disability in (3) __________ when they reported on ‘creeping illiteracy ‘ in a report on their students’ final examination in 1988.
Over the years, university lecturers have (4) __________ aware of an increasing tendency towards grammatical sloppiness, poor spelling and general imprecision in their students’ ways of writing; and sloppy writing is all (5)__________ often a reflection of sloppy thinking. Their complaint was that they had (6)__________ to do teaching their own subject (7)__________ teaching their undergraduates to write.
Some lecturers believe that they have a duty to stress the importance of maintaining standards of clear thinking (8) __________ the written word in a world dominated by visual communications and images. They (9) __________ on the connection between clear thinking and a form of writing that is not only clear but also sensitive to subtleties of meaning. The same lecturers argue that undergraduates appear to be the victims of a ‘softening process’ that begins with the teaching of English in schools, but this point of (10) __________ has, not surprisingly, caused a great deal of controversy.
Illiteracy may be considered more as an abstract concept than a condition. When a famous English writer used this word over two hundred years ago, he was actually referring to people (1)_________ could not read Greek or Latin. (2) __________ , it seems unlikely that university examiners had this sort of disability in (3) __________ when they reported on ‘creeping illiteracy ‘ in a report on their students’ final examination in 1988.
Over the years, university lecturers have (4) __________ aware of an increasing tendency towards grammatical sloppiness, poor spelling and general imprecision in their students’ ways of writing; and sloppy writing is all (5)__________ often a reflection of sloppy thinking. Their complaint was that they had (6)__________ to do teaching their own subject (7)__________ teaching their undergraduates to write.
Some lecturers believe that they have a duty to stress the importance of maintaining standards of clear thinking (8) __________ the written word in a world dominated by visual communications and images. They (9) __________ on the connection between clear thinking and a form of writing that is not only clear but also sensitive to subtleties of meaning. The same lecturers argue that undergraduates appear to be the victims of a ‘softening process’ that begins with the teaching of English in schools, but this point of (10) __________ has, not surprisingly, caused a great deal of controversy.