Reports and marking

fiddlestick

Nietzschean wrote:

Could have fooled, me and apparently quite a few others...


And i'm pointing out that despite me probally having less spelling skills than many kids leaving primary school i still do fine with academic reports , and reports for industry, as do many people i know.


The whole point of mildly is that they tend not to be diagnosed with it, generally diagnosis only really happens for the severe cases of it, to hazard a guess at my class i would guess in the region of maybe 30-40%

Im not on any high horse. I am pointing out that I have experience in marking students reports, and am saying it is important.After all, there ARE marks allocated for spelling in some Cases. See my first post on the Engineering thread where this started for the context.
You sound proud of the fact , that you have worse spelling skills than primary school leavers?. I think embarrassment would be the word to use here.
Are you saying that students standards should drop after attending university? That they should learn to spell in primary school, and by the time they leave university, they have lost this most basic of all lifes skills?
As for spelling in industry,whether you want to believe me or not, The lack of spelling ability will have an affect on your career,I speak not from my own opinion, but from the opinion of more senior employers/(engineering in my case) than me, who are actively involved in recruiting for their company.
Imagine going to a recruitment event for a company. You are sitting there, doing some tests, maybe aptitude or general intelligence tests, something where you have to handwrite your answers. Your lack of spelling ability causes you to make several mistakes on your answer sheet.
I promise you, your application will be the first in the bin.

Having expounded on your lack of spelling skills, do you not think it slightly rude to be explaining the meaning of 'mildly' to someone? By your own admission you are not in any position to be doing this!
I fully understood what you meant, and that is why I asked for the amount of people who are generally considered to be dyslexic....according to you!
30 - 40%??I would surmise that an expert would point to perhaps 5% of the general population as being dyslexic mildly or otherwise, and a further similar number or perhaps 10% more being undiagnosed or misdiagnosed as non-dyslexic. Can you perhaps point me in the direction of your qualifications for making this 30-40% statement, perhaps even, you could tell me your own experience of marking reports?

Nietzschean

frankly i really cba replying to that aggressive ****e. And given Tacitha made really the only usefull post in the last age i'm locking this.