If an alien were to stand in the middle of the Quad, or maybe in the center of Lenoir Dining Hall, they’d hear some of the most exquisite diction of our species. Someone is “geekin” on the escalator.

With the popularity of the new end-of-course (EOC) exams, colleges and high schools expected improved writing skills of students at all grade levels. Critics complained the previous TAKS exam taught ...

It's nothing to LOL about: Despite best efforts to keep school writing assignments formal, two-thirds of teens admit in a survey that emoticons and other informal styles have crept in. The Pew ...

Academic writing is defined by conventions rather than rules and so its style varies. The point is not for you and your peers to produce identical pieces of writing , but to provide a shared framework ...

Park, a 38-year-old elementary school teacher in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, had sixth-grade students (22 students) write essays on the 1970s democratization movement during the last semester. Only 10 ...

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 ...