English majors with a concentration in creative writing must satisfy the requirements for the major, including an introductory-level and an advanced-level creative writing course in a single genre ...

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 ...

The Writing Program offered by Saint Louis University’s Department of English teaches the fundamentals of persuasive composition. The program's courses provide students with foundational knowledge of ...

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 ...

STORRS, Conn. — Mark Merliss took college-prep courses at an outstanding urban high school, in a state admired for its top-notch public schools. He was accepted at four colleges including his first ...

Let’s get this out of the way immediately: I have a Ph.D. in English, more specifically, in rhetoric and composition. My decades of academic life have been occupied by the study and teaching of ...

Chris Patel admits it: Writing is not his strength. And he hates public speaking. "I'm not good at it," the University of South Florida junior said recently, noting that English is his second language ...

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 ...