Freshmen estimate that they write about 25 hours each week, and most believe that they arrived on their campus with college-level writing skills fully formed. The findings, which suggest that students ...

As the college essay program manager for Write the World, a nonprofit writing organization for teens, I oversee a group of advisers who guide students through the essay writing process. I have seen ...

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 ...

Writing centers on college campuses have been around for more than 100 years, and they’re both a resource for students doing assignments and a symbol of the importance in higher education of learning ...

Teaching high school English can sometimes be a daunting task. “I’m not a good writer ” and “Miss, I don’t know how to start!” are statements I’ve heard so many times over the years. As a writing ...

W hen I was a kid, my favorite poem was Shel Silverstein’s “The Homework Machine,” which summed up my childhood fantasy: a machine that could do my homework at the press of a button. Decades later ...

Commentary: By facing AI head-on, my students and I can work on the real point of writing, which is to help you think. Meet industry creators, contributors, and thought leaders who have paired with ...

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I believe there is a disconnect between writing as it is taught in secondary education and what happens in the college composition classroom. I know I am not the only instructor who believes that the ...

The Lycoming College Writing Program has been developed in response to the conviction that writing skills promote intellectual growth and are a hallmark of the educated person. The program, therefore, ...