The sequence of courses that undergraduates complete to satisfy the Written, Oral, and Multimodal Communication (WOMC) component of the Unified General Education Requirements (UGER) ensures that ...

I remember spending hours commenting painstakingly on my students’ papers when I was a graduate student teaching in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. My students loved our classes ...

Essay writing fosters critical thinking by demanding critical analysis, appraisal, and integration of information from students. Applying critical thinking to writing a good argumentative essay ...

Learning outcomes and objectives are the fundamental elements of most well-designed courses. Well-conceived outcomes and objectives serve as guideposts to help instructors work through the design of a ...

Be able to read academic and/or professional or technical texts and understand how disciplinary conventions and goals shape the texts they read. Understand and use writing as a means of learning and ...

Writing practice and instruction fosters higher order thinking and cultivates critical intellectual processes such as analyzing ideas, solving problems, and evaluating claims. Writing is a complex ...

A nation-wide study of more than 500 Australian primary school students in Year 2 has revealed how beginner writers’ attitude and motivation towards writing is related to the quality of their writing ...

After decades in education, I’ve seen plenty of reforms come and go. But this year, something shifted, something big. Instead of asking how much programs cost, we’ve finally started asking what they ...