"students read and write relatively little and oral communication seems to be relatively uncommon…. students feel that examinations are far too rarely based on educational theories about learning processes and comprehension."

- "Through Student Eyes – quality from the perspective of students." Report 2002:21 R, Sweden's National Agency for Higher Education, 2002

"Before we know it, the genres we teach today, the essay and the traditional academic research paper may be supplemented with new genres such as hypertext, calling for new ideas on how to teach and how to organize writing instruction."

 

- Lennart Bjork, Gerd Brauer, Lotte Rienecker, and Peter Stray Jorgensen in their introduction to Teaching Academic Writing in European Higher Education (Kluwer Publishing, 2002)