Postmodern fatigue

The one drawback of doing this course on The Matrix is that I'm having to read a lot of postmodernist stuff. Well, chr0me_kitten did warn me!

Question 1: Does the recent history of continental philosophy mirror Baudrillard's precession of simulacra?

Question 2: Are students who post essays on critical theory on the web genuinely bad writers, or are their shortcomings in spelling, punctuation and general clarity an attempt to avoid co-optation?