Purpose: This study examines the process of using analytic rubrics in higher education, focusing on students in a writing course for basic users of English, the resources they employ as they use the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new basic writing course at UPEI will have only half as many instructors as the English writing course it's designed to replace. English professor Wendy Shilton says she is concerned that students ...

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 ...

If you need to improve your English language and academic skills to meet the entry requirements for an undergraduate or postgraduate degree at The University of Sheffield, our Pre-sessional English ...