First-year students in a required English composition class at the University of Delaware have gone far beyond the basic description of the introductory course, writing essays arguing for social ...

Today is the National Day on Writing, a tribute founded by the National Council of Teachers of English in 2009 “to celebrate composition in all its forms.” This year, the virtual community on Twitter, ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

Practice in the original composition of poetry supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Each student is expected to prepare a manuscript each week. There will be a weekly workshop ...

This article reports on the results of a qualitative, interview-based study in which multilingual writing faculty based at the American University of Beirut, in Beirut, Lebanon, read and responded to ...

The University of Nevada, Reno’s program in Writing and Speaking in the Disciplines (WSID) helps fulfill the University’s Writing and Speaking Initiative by supporting faculty as they teach writing ...

Longtime Shasta College English instructor Peter Berkow, who two decades ago developed an innovative PBS television series on writing, is now making those episodes available through an e-book. As ...

Jaclyn received a Ph.D. in English (Rhetoric and Composition) from Purdue University in 2010. Her book, Partners in Literacy: A Writing Center Model for Civic Engagement (co-authored with Allen Brizee ...

This article argues that the teaching of public writing should not neglect issues of circulation and local need. In a series of case studies involving small press papers and homeless advocacy, the ...