Chicago: USA Today Online, August 23rd 2011.
"[Lynda] Duke and [Andrew] Asher said they were surprised by "the extent to which students appeared to lack even some of the most basic information literacy skills that we assumed they would have mastered in high school." Even students who were high achievers in high school suffered from these deficiencies, Asher told Inside Higher Ed in an interview.
In other words: Today's college students might have grown up with the language of the information age, but they do not necessarily know the grammar."
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Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries Project