The Chronicle of Higher Education

Why We Must Get Back to Basics in Teaching Composition

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 ...
snhu

On the Write Track: Reframing How We Think About Teaching Writing

Tackling first-year composition at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is no small feat. With over 8,000 learners – each with unique backgrounds and experience – moving through our Composition I ...
University of Delaware

How I Teach — Writing

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, ...
University of Wyoming

UW Professor’s Book Helps Academics Better Teach Students Science Writing

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

GenAI is changing how professors teach writing. This faculty member has built a place to talk about “the conundrums that plague me.”

“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 ...
Inside Higher Ed

We Know How to Teach Writing

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 ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Dermer: Let's figure out how to teach our students to write again

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 ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

How to ‘Write Like You Teach’

Peering over my laptop, I see a few dozen nonfiction books lining the edge of my desk. Disparate in quality and content, they all have one thing in common: They want me to learn something. As an ...
snhu

Creative Writing Faculty Jacob Powers: A Faculty Q&A

Jacob Powers' passion for writing and storytelling was ignited in high school when Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" taught him that, sometimes, breaking the rules of writing was the key to a ...
Inside Higher Ed

Writing Wrongs?

Arizona State University angered many of its faculty members last month when it announced that it was upping full-time, non-tenure-track composition instructors’ teaching loads to five classes per ...
The Eastern Echo

The Echo Q&A Series: EMU Professor Gates Wesley discusses book writing and teaching

Editor's note: The Eastern Echo staff meets regularly with interesting people on and off campus. Engage in those ...