The only course required for all undergraduate students at the University of Delaware is called Seminar in Composition or English 110. That is not an accident. Writing well matters, whether one majors ...

English 111, Composition and Rhetoric, is a writing course focused on principles and practices of rhetoric and composition useful for producing writing that is effective for its purpose, audience, and ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

In the world of college composition, we spend a lot of time talking about how to teach writing — with as many opinions on that as there are instructors — but very little time talking about why we ...

(Both images from the archives of Jason Palmeri) “Why I Dislike Men”: The Politics of Gender in Mid-Century Composition Student Writing at Miami University, Jason Palmeri, Department of English In ...

Holy Spirit High School teacher Alexa Loreaux, who teaches AP Language and Composition, instructs students during class.

Vol. 6, No. 3, Workshop and Panel-Discussion Reports of the 1955 Conference on College Comosition and Communication (Oct., 1955), pp. 125-126 (2 pages) Published By: National Council of Teachers of ...

W henever I talk with colleagues about our students’ writing, we complain. Not only about the writing itself (which, every year, at every institution, is consistently but somehow surprisingly bad) but ...