First-year students in a required English composition class at the University of Delaware have gone far beyond the basic description of the introductory course, writing essays arguing for social ...

First-year composition courses, which are required of incoming students at many colleges and universities, lack cachet. No student gets excited about a comp class, and the faculty who teach these ...

Extravagant cars, illicit affairs, eliminating gluten -- I’ve heard these are good ways to cope with a midlife crisis. But I’m an academic. So I chose to go back to school. After a decade teaching ...

One positive effect of using reflective writing in my classes is that the use of generative AI is low. Reflective writing forces students to think and demonstrate individuality under specific ...

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 ...

N ext week I’ll travel to Kansas City for the annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. It’s where rhetoric and composition scholars from across the country gather to ...