One of the key learning outcomes of university education in general, and liberal arts programmes,  in particular, is that ...

After comprehensively editing the hundreds of college compositions and articles that come across my desk each semester—and having waded through tens of thousands of essays and papers from students I ...

The one course all students take their first semester at Bowdoin is a First-Year Writing Seminar (FYWS). First-Year Writing Seminars balance significant intellectual work with instruction in writing ...

Artificial intelligence systems that generate sustained conversations in response to user input ("generative AI") have captured headlines recently. Such composing tools offer challenges and ...

Matthew Johnson is an English teacher from Ann Arbor, Mich., and the author of Flash Feedback: Responding to Student Writing Better and Faster – Without Burning Out (published by Corwin Press). His ...

The RIT Writing Center is committed to hiring and training a diverse peer student writing consultant staff. In their role as writing consultants, students from a variety of programs and disciplines ...

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of generating polished, grammatically correct text that meets academic standards, educators face a critical challenge: How can we teach students ...

This course is inspired by the principle that authentic knowledge begins when we teach others. Through first-hand experience tutoring peers, you will deepen your understanding of writing as a process ...

With ChatGPT from OpenAI launched in November 2022, the discussions don’t stop around this tech’s influence on the education niche. Teachers continue to weigh the pros and cons, given the tool’s ...

In the New York Times obituary of Peter Elbow, the giant of composition studies, he is said to have “transformed freshman comp,” which he definitely did, but also, maybe not? Even as someone who has ...