Students complete a First-Year Writing Seminar Selection process prior to matriculation, in order to determine which of several environments will provide the best seminar experience for them. (This ...

Writing Across the Curriculum (or WAC) is a pedagogical movement that has flourished at colleges and universities across the US for more than 40 years. Throughout its history, WAC has shown that ...

The entrance to BYU campus is marked by a sign exhibiting BYU's motto — 'The world is our campus.' There are many resources available to freshmen when they are building their first-semester schedules.

Math major Nicquela Roach says she expected her first-year writing classes to be “just a lot of long papers.” They weren’t. In fact, Roach’s College Writing II professor broke the ice by having ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story misstated Steve Graham’s affiliation. He is a professor at Arizona State University. If you want a hint of the gap between students’ writing skills and ...

Most directly admitted first year students at RIT will be advised to enroll in a section of First Year Writing (UWRT 150). Students who have approved transfer credit for a first year writing course, ...

Perhaps the greatest challenge to academe in the current political environment is the ascendancy of a “post-truth,” “alternative fact,” “fake news” culture, in which claims are detached from evidence ...

Provocative storytelling, heartfelt commentary, moments of sensitivity, and genuine laughter—the atmosphere of an introductory creative writing workshop feels almost too congenial for a Columbia ...

SEATTLE — As the use of generative AI software, such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, becomes increasingly popular, high schools and colleges are examining the role it should play in education. While ...

T here is no end to denunciations of academic writing. You’ve likely read one recently. They usually deride jargon and theory and despair over turgid and impenetrable prose. Most recently the British ...

Gordon Rugg received funding from the Government Office of the East Midlands for some of the work reported in the article "Selection and use of elicitation techniques for education research". If ...