At many colleges, professors trained in the discipline of rhetoric and composition are finding that the specialized knowledge they bring to teaching writing is held in thrall to older notions of how ...

Enrollment: Students who don’t demonstrate proficiency are referred to a basic writing course at community colleges, or they can take an on-campus course taught by community college instructors.

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 ...

My professor in my M.F.A. program at Northwestern University asked me to write 900 words about why I love teaching composition. She assumes I love it, perhaps because I just spent three years working ...

It has been said that poetry “is the sound of language organized in lines,” (James Longenbach) and we might aspire to put “the best words in the best order,” (Samuel Coleridge) but poetry is also a ...

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The CWA writing courses are open to any undergraduate at Northwestern who has met the prerequisite of having already taken one writing-intensive course at Northwestern. They are taught by Visiting ...