[SpicyLemonZest]

It covers what I think other languages may consider a subset of literacy. The point is to carefully avoid calling anyone stupid, while acknowledging that the ability to deeply think through what other people are communicating is a learned skill which often must be explicitly taught.

[skydhash]

Yep! My essays in schools had prompts like “Describe the similarities between the Pocahontas story and the first Avatar movies”. The point was not the produced text, but the activity itself. And as a teacher, I believe it’s quite easy to catch cheaters, because producing a stellar text one day and a crappy piece another is an anomaly.