Elementary and secondary schools should spend more time teaching students to write well to better prepare them for college, according to a report released on Friday by the National Commission on ...

Dan Melzer, associate director of first-year composition at the University of California, Davis, shook up the research on teaching college-level writing in 2014 with his book Assignments Across the ...

The Undergraduate GWAR is a CSU-wide requirement that should be completed by undergraduate students in their junior year. All undergraduate students must satisfy the Graduation Writing Assessment ...

College-level writing instructors across the country are inevitably grappling with the challenge to instruction presented by generative artificial intelligence and large-language models. While many ...

This fall, thanks to receiving a high score on the Advanced Placement English Language and Composition exam, hundreds of thousands of incoming freshmen are going to dodge their college or university’s ...

From Shakespeare essays to lab reports, writing is relevant to every area of academic study. The Writing Center is hosting a series of workshops to help students across academic disciplines strengthen ...

This article originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed. Occasionally, one hears grumbling from faculty who assign writing in their courses about the apparent lack of preparation of students to ...

Steve Lamos is Associate Professor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric and the English Department. His work focuses on issues of race and racism within U.S. college-level writing instruction, ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. In a recent ...

For a first-year Bates student, the leap from high school to college-level writing can be a daunting one. You tackle new genres, you look at evidence more critically. And you learn that at Bates, good ...

UC Davis seniors take part in an advanced writing class to prepare them for the law school admissions process in 2011. Renee C. Byer Sacramento Bee file It’s probably not a surprise to hear that a lot ...

Early this semester, I had my first of several meetings with my four weekly Writing Partner tutees. Known as “weekly clients” amongst Writing Center employees, these students are oftentimes ...