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 ...

Students are often taught about the expeditions of Lewis and Clark, but only some get the opportunity to act the part. Maurice Isserman, a history professor at Hamilton College, in Clinton, N.Y., ...

Karen Head is an assistant professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Literature, Media, and Communication, and director of the university’s Communication Center. She has been ...

There are no doubt some freshman composition courses where the students have to do a lot of serious writing and that writing is subjected to careful scrutiny by the professor. That kind of course ...

As adults, we sometimes forget how fortunate we are that we were taught to write as children. Even with advancements in technology allowing for on-the-fly spell-check, grammar edits and voice-to-text ...

I teach two levels of our required writing series. ENG 100 is the typical Freshman Writing class, complete with a number of required common assignments and readings. We (or at least I) focus on ...

NEW YORK – Some colleges debate whether writing is best taught by writing experts or professors in other disciplines. City College decided not to make a choice. In fall 2007, as part of a revision of ...

Freshman composition, the one course that virtually every college student must take, is peculiarly vulnerable to becoming a course in the politics of the instructor or, in the case of departmentally ...