Elementary and secondary schools should spend more time teaching students to write well to better prepare them for college, according to a report released on Friday by the National Commission on ...

Freshmen estimate that they write about 25 hours each week, and most believe that they arrived on their campus with college-level writing skills fully formed. The findings, which suggest that students ...

Dan Melzer, associate director of first-year composition at the University of California, Davis, shook up the research on teaching college-level writing in 2014 with his book Assignments Across the ...

The Undergraduate GWAR is a CSU-wide requirement that should be completed by undergraduate students in their junior year. All undergraduate students must satisfy the Graduation Writing Assessment ...

College-level writing instructors across the country are inevitably grappling with the challenge to instruction presented by generative artificial intelligence and large-language models. While many ...

For a first-year Bates student, the leap from high school to college-level writing can be a daunting one. You tackle new genres, you look at evidence more critically. And you learn that at Bates, good ...

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, ...

This article originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed. Occasionally, one hears grumbling from faculty who assign writing in their courses about the apparent lack of preparation of students to ...

UC Davis seniors take part in an advanced writing class to prepare them for the law school admissions process in 2011. Renee C. Byer Sacramento Bee file It’s probably not a surprise to hear that a lot ...