The easy "A" your Advanced Placement (AP) English teacher promised you'd get in college writing classes may not pan out as expected. While honors and AP English programs aim to give high-achieving ...

It’s not every day that a college freshman has an essay accepted for publication. And it’s even rarer to have an essay accepted for publication into The Norton Field Guide to Writing, a well-known and ...

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 ...

Cleveland State University students listen to General Chemistry 1 professor Dr. Jerry Mundell during a morning lecture class in Cleveland in the Main classroom building. (John Kuntz/The Plain Dealer) ...

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Educators who teach first-year writing courses need to use their leverage to ensure students arrive on campus with skills that match expectations, writes Daniel M. Gross What is college-level writing?

Last semester, I approached my CORE 111 writing seminar class with apprehension. I had always heard how ruthless college writing courses could be. I expected unachievable grading standards, especially ...

Calvin Trillin offers a Brief but Spectacular take on some of the best lessons on writing. As a longtime writer for The New Yorker, Calvin Trillin was less interested in directly explaining why what ...