Readers respond to a philosophy professor’s essay that argued for less emphasis on writing in the college classroom.

Creativity is fundamental to the teaching of writing. Although WR 153 focuses specifically on creativity and innovation, all WR courses ask students to approach their reading, viewing, writing, and ...

Handwriting has indeed demonstrated value in the classroom, but there really isn’t any compelling research that suggests cursive is superior to printing.

SAGES seminars offer opportunities to connect course content with successful writing strategies. In addition to emphasizing core skills of academic writing (e.g., summary, paraphrase, integrating ...

It’s a short course with lofty goals. That’s in the syllabus description for Introduction to Legal Analysis and Writing, an intensive course to help first-year students develop the essential skills of ...

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

In an age of AI-assisted writing, is it important for university students to learn how to write? We believe it is now more than ever. In the writing classroom, students get the time and help they need ...

Sritama Chatterjee is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. You can find her on Twitter @SritamaBarna. Given this situation, it may be challenging ...

When this semester started, I started exploring the possibility of incorporating the use of digital archives in my first-year writing course, titled Border Stories: Power, Poetics and Architecture. In ...