The new administration in Washington promises fresh resources for our failing school systems. The need is great. Yet at a time when every penny counts, we had better be sure that new investments in ...

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 ...

When Avery Nixon started college in fall 2021 at Montclair State University in New Jersey, she was anxious about her writing proficiency after struggling academically in high school. But on her first ...

Christine Peters Cucciarre is Director of Composition and a Professor of English at the University of Delaware. In 2013, Dr. Cucciarre received UD's College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching ...

The English MA program is designed for students who have had substantial undergraduate preparation in English, and is of special value to students who plan to teach English in a community college, who ...

The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...

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 ...

His struggles with writer’s block led him to create a process that favored an expressive, personal approach over rigid academic conventions that often stifled students. By Michael S. Rosenwald Peter ...