When Emily Cataneo and Arshia Simkin graduated from their Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing program in2019, they realized there weren't many opportunities outside of a university setting to ...

Emily Cataneo, co-founder of Redbud, teaches Redbud Writing Project’s first ever class. For some people, writing is not only a creative outlet, but a cathartic one. That's true for "Perry," a previous ...

Going into my required Writing as Practice course this fall term, I didn’t think there was much the class could teach me.

Writing Across the Curriculum (or WAC) is a pedagogical movement that has flourished at colleges and universities across the US for more than 40 years. Throughout its history, WAC has shown that ...

Writing Across the Curriculum programs have demonstrated that students can gain a deeper understanding of subject-area content by writing about it. This insight is often dubbed “Writing-to-Learn” (WTL ...

Michele Haiken isn’t quite ready to do away with student essays. But the veteran English teacher at New York’s Rye Middle School would much rather get her students writing podcasts and movie scripts, ...

Creative writing at Yale is more popular — and more competitive to get into — than ever. The program, which is run by the University’s English department, announced enrollment decisions for its spring ...

Tapping into their creativity and letting their imagination lead them through the day, nearly 300 area elementary and middle ...

Recently I raised the subject of ChatGPT with a group of Ph.D. students, on the cusp of faculty careers. Which writing task would they like to hand over to a bot? And which one would they rather not ...

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First-year composition courses, which are required of incoming students at many colleges and universities, lack cachet. No student gets excited about a comp class, and the faculty who teach these ...