Brandeis University

Motive: Why Writing Matters Across the Disciplines

Students in UWS learn that all writing is motivated (sometimes also referred to as the question, problem, so what?, or what’s at stake?). Everything, from an analytical essay to a grant proposal to a ...
Miami University

Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices Celebrates Miami Faculty and Promotes Deep, Systemic Change in Writing Across Disciplines

Miami faculty have long been recognized as innovative teachers and teacher/scholars. Those characteristics are on full display to a national audience in a new book available now for pre-order, ...
Inside Higher Ed

Rethinking Responding to Student Writing

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 ...
Miami University

Howe Writing Across the Curriculum

Howe Writing Across the Curriculum (HWAC), a division of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence (HCWE), keeps a staff of full-time administrators and part-time Graduate Assistant Directors. Our staff ...
Inside Higher Ed

AI Won’t Replace Writing Instruction

As a writing across the curriculum scholar and programmer, I’ve been talking about artificial intelligence writing tools a lot lately. I’ve heard it all, from the woes and worries of students using ...
cursus.edu

How Important Are Writing Skills in College

Writing is a skill often relegated to the backdrop of a student's academic journey, overshadowed by grades, majors, and extracurricular activities. However, the ability to write clearly and ...
Bow Doin Polar Bears

First-Year Writing Seminar

The one course all students take their first semester at Bowdoin is a First-Year Writing Seminar (FYWS). First-Year Writing Seminars balance significant intellectual work with instruction in writing ...