This article examines two course redesigns undertaken to improve student learning, and retention in the basic writing program at Oakland University, a doctoral research university in southeast ...

It was the e-mail he received from a teacher that sealed Craig Toensing’s decision to make grammar count on the Connecticut Mastery Tests. Contained within the ...

This article explores the particular challenges and possibilities of service learning pedagogy for basic writers. Because a number of scholars of service learning and basic writing (Adler-Kassner, ...

Writing starts way before you put letters to a page. It involves processes like critical thinking, communication, and creativity. Even if writing feels like pulling teeth, you can apply the principles ...

Academic writing differs greatly from other types of writing. It gives not that much space for creativity, but rather requires structure, research, and analysis. That is why students do not feel ...

The ubiquity of e-mail means that everyone in business, from lords of finance to programmers who dream in code, needs to write intelligently. By using simple, clear, precise language, and following a ...

Steve Lamos is Associate Professor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric and the English Department. His work focuses on issues of race and racism within U.S. college-level writing instruction, ...

Perennially best-selling novelist Sue Miller will be in Saratoga Springs Saturday to read from her work at Northshire Bookstore. Miller's newest work "The Arsonist" (Knopf, 2014) explores the idea of ...

In grade school, we were required to try our hand at playing an instrument. I, along with about 30 of my fellow 4 th graders, wanted the drums. I ended up with the clarinet. I did not want to play the ...

The ubiquity of e­mail means that everyone in business, from lords of finance to programmers who dream in code, needs to write intelligently. By using simple, clear, precise language, and following a ...