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 ...

Jessica Yood went back to school to take a class on first-year writing and came away with a new take on the reform of general-composition courses. Extravagant cars, illicit affairs, eliminating gluten ...

M y students can’t write a clear sentence to save their lives. It’s my job to help them change that. I have taught writing for 10 years. Much like Joseph R. Teller, whose October essay criticizing how ...