Have you hugged your college’s freshman writing course today? (Not the students, not the teachers—we don’t want disciplinary hearings. The course.) Like most who have worked in English departments, I ...

Freshman composition, the one course that virtually every college student must take, is peculiarly vulnerable to becoming a course in the politics of the instructor or, in the case of departmentally ...

This course offers students an opportunity to practice composition skills in order to write literate, forceful and persuasive essays. Participants will work to develop a clean, efficient writing style ...