Talk to me about California Coast University

[Jonathan Whatley]

And if you took a bachelors at the U of Toronto, back in the day, there likely would have been no writing course at all.  The presumption was that you were taught how to write in high school.  They worked on the assumption that students were grownups, not momma's boys.

Prior to the 1990s it was typical for graduate students to hire a typist/editor for at least their thesis/dissertation.

My father, a first generation to college, not from wealth, and funded entirely by merit scholarships and part-time employment, hired a typist for his MA (Toronto, 1968) and PhD (LSE, 1970).

Now, he was in analytic philosophy and he'd specifically not want a non-specialist to change his wording. But other students used more active editorial assistance.