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 ...

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-attentive courses accomplish these goals in five main areas: integration, scaffolding, revision, writing to learn, and writing to communicate. Writing is here construed broadly, to include ...

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 ...

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Despite already facing challenges in the transition from high school to college, USC freshmen often take on difficult courses such as the mandatory — and notorious — “Writing 150: Writing and Critical ...