College life for Bowdoin students involves a lot of writing, from class papers to texting. But outside of the English Department's creative writing classes, there is often not a lot of time or impetus ...

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 ...

Great teachers know how to improve myriad aspects of student writing: idea generation, organization, evidence marshaling, diction, grammar, and more. But even with tools and techniques in each of ...

Feedback from peers and students’ reflection on their own writing have multiple benefits: they help students improve as writers; promote their agency, metacognition, and deep learning; and lighten our ...

At Smith, we believe writing is a crucial tool in all disciplines and that, as experts in their field, faculty are ideally positioned to teach it across the curriculum. Teaching students how to convey ...