The writer’s practice frames writing as an act of thinking in the attempt to communicate with an audience with specific needs, attitudes, and knowledge. First-year composition is a course oriented ...

The teaching of writing happens — or should — within a deep field of practice, theory, and research. It’s also an enterprise marked by a fair amount of what Steve North, in a 1987 book, The ...

The series includes professors who teach biology, writing, business, calculus, political science and sociology, and those stories can be read on the How I Teach website. In this story, Délice Williams ...

Students learn the various writing styles appropriate for analyzing, addressing, and critiquing these genres including poetry, novels, dramas, and research writing. The text and its pairing of helpful ...

The two required composition courses fulfill the writing portion of General Education 10: Basic Communication. The Composition Course Sequence. The first course in the sequence, CPN 100: Writing ...

Composition courses must focus on process, not just product. ... Writing well involves making rhetorical decisions, but it’s clear that you can’t choose from what you don’t know.

First-year students in a required English composition class at the University of Delaware have gone far beyond the basic description of the introductory course, writing essays arguing for social ...

Today is the National Day on Writing, a tribute founded by the National Council of Teachers of English in 2009 “to celebrate composition in all its forms.”This year, the virtual community on ...