The new administration in Washington promises fresh resources for our failing school systems. The need is great. Yet at a time when every penny counts, we had better be sure that new investments in ...

Many of the students in today's college writing classroom are career-oriented and have little interest in literature; they also may not be native speakers of English. A traditional approach to ...

Cal State Los Angeles freshman Jorge Pivaral was not surprised that a placement exam he took last year showed he needed help writing at a college level. After all, in his Los Angeles high school ...

Freshmen estimate that they write about 25 hours each week, and most believe that they arrived on their campus with college-level writing skills fully formed. The findings, which suggest that students ...

His struggles with writer’s block led him to create a process that favored an expressive, personal approach over rigid academic conventions that often stifled students. By Michael S. Rosenwald Peter ...

English 1101 (English Composition I) is the first step in a required two-step composition sequence under section A1 in UNG's core curriculum. The course catalog defines the course as focusing on ...