At many colleges, professors trained in the discipline of rhetoric and composition are finding that the specialized knowledge they bring to teaching writing is held in thrall to older notions of how ...

Writing is a much-prized skill and a difficult one to master and, while some are naturally gifted in stringing sentences together, we all need to take the time to learn the craft. Whether you want to ...

Enrollment: Students who don’t demonstrate proficiency are referred to a basic writing course at community colleges, or they can take an on-campus course taught by community college instructors.

Writing Across the Curriculum (or WAC) is a pedagogical movement that has flourished at colleges and universities across the US for more than 40 years. Throughout its history, WAC has shown that ...

Journal of Basic Writing, Vol. 41, No. 1/2 (Spring / Fall 2022), pp. 76-105 (30 pages) Despite the push for all institutions of higher learning to embrace a corequisite model for writing instruction, ...

My professor in my M.F.A. program at Northwestern University asked me to write 900 words about why I love teaching composition. She assumes I love it, perhaps because I just spent three years working ...

Chris Patel admits it: Writing is not his strength. And he hates public speaking. "I'm not good at it," the University of South Florida junior said recently, noting that English is his second language ...

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