In the world of college composition, we spend a lot of time talking about how to teach writing — with as many opinions on that as there are instructors — but very little time talking about why we ...

M y students can’t write a clear sentence to save their lives. It’s my job to help them change that. I have taught writing for 10 years. Much like Joseph R. Teller, whose October essay criticizing how ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

LOUISVILLE -- "I was incredibly well trained to teach college writing, but only one course at a time. How do you teach five classes when you've only been trained to teach one?" That was the question ...

“Much of my first-year writing courses are about helping students to think through their reading process,” Malone said. “There is all this research in the field that backs that up, that reading helps ...

Writing recently at The Washington Post, Jeffrey Selingo adds another example to the “Why can’t students write?” genre, a genre, on which I’ve weighed in a time or two myself.[1] The complaints about ...

A University of Wyoming faculty member wants to help college students become better writers of science by giving academics ...

Every subject poses unique instructional challenges. Yet I can’t think of one that is more daunting than teaching composition. That’s because it’s impossible to teach students how to write effectively ...

Americans do not write well. In 2002, so many educators, employers, and policy-makers considered the quality of writing in the United States to be inadequate that the College Board established a ...