Dan Melzer, associate director of first-year composition at the University of California, Davis, shook up the research on teaching college-level writing in 2014 with his book Assignments Across the ...

This fall, thanks to receiving a high score on the Advanced Placement English Language and Composition exam, hundreds of thousands of incoming freshmen are going to dodge their college or university’s ...

College-level writing instructors across the country are inevitably grappling with the challenge to instruction presented by generative artificial intelligence and large-language models. While many ...

From Shakespeare essays to lab reports, writing is relevant to every area of academic study. The Writing Center is hosting a series of workshops to help students across academic disciplines strengthen ...

I f there’s been one constant in the nearly 30 years Kerry L. Beckford has been teaching, it’s this: College students aren’t particularly excited to take a required composition course. So Beckford, a ...

What Kind of Writer Are You? The Writing Program's First-Year Writing Seminar Selection process empowers first-year students to select the Academic Inquiry Semina r (AIQS) that best suits their needs ...

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 ...

Balancing college classes, assignments, and personal life isn’t getting any easier. With deadlines looming and standards rising, many students are looking for smarter ways to manage their writing ...