The Writing Program offered by Saint Louis University’s Department of English teaches the fundamentals of persuasive composition. The program's courses provide students with foundational knowledge of ...

Journal of Basic Writing, Vol. 41, No. 1/2 (Spring / Fall 2022), pp. 76-105 (30 pages) Despite the push for all institutions of higher learning to embrace a corequisite model for writing instruction, ...

This article discusses basic writing pedagogy at a two-year tribal college, an institution type that has not been visible in the basic writing literature to date. In many tribal college contexts, ...

Want to write clearly and effectively? Take a composition course at Concordia. The English department offers a variety of Composition courses at different levels from basic grammar and usage to ...

The First-Year Writing Program teaches undergraduate students to communicate effectively and engage in self-directed learning. These competencies are part of the six core intellectual and practical ...

Extended "discourse," such as class presentations or essays written as school assignments, has a particular structure arising from particular expectations and standards. Such structure, expectations, ...

Let’s get this out of the way immediately: I have a Ph.D. in English, more specifically, in rhetoric and composition. My decades of academic life have been occupied by the study and teaching of ...

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 ...

Like every creative endeavor, good creative writing is partly art and partly skill. The art comes from within – a talent and ear for composing with words, and a passion for the subject matter at hand.

STORRS, Conn. — Mark Merliss took college-prep courses at an outstanding urban high school, in a state admired for its top-notch public schools. He was accepted at four colleges including his first ...