The new administration in Washington promises fresh resources for our failing school systems. The need is great. Yet at a time when every penny counts, we had better be sure that new investments in ...

Want to write clearly and effectively? Take a composition course at Concordia. The English department offers a variety of Composition courses at different levels from basic grammar and usage to ...

English 111, Composition and Rhetoric, is a writing course focused on principles and practices of rhetoric and composition useful for producing writing that is effective for its purpose, audience, and ...

Cal State Los Angeles freshman Jorge Pivaral was not surprised that a placement exam he took last year showed he needed help writing at a college level. After all, in his Los Angeles high school ...

The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...

We are accepting Fall 2026 applications for our Ph.D. programs. We plan to resume M.A. and MFA admissions in Fall 2027. Are you interested in writing and the teaching of writing? Digital composing and ...

Christine Peters Cucciarre is Director of Composition and a Professor of English at the University of Delaware. In 2013, Dr. Cucciarre received UD's College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching ...

When Avery Nixon started college in fall 2021 at Montclair State University in New Jersey, she was anxious about her writing proficiency after struggling academically in high school. But on her first ...

The English MA program is designed for students who have had substantial undergraduate preparation in English, and is of special value to students who plan to teach English in a community college, who ...

Freshmen estimate that they write about 25 hours each week, and most believe that they arrived on their campus with college-level writing skills fully formed. The findings, which suggest that students ...

All students who will enter the University of California as freshmen must fulfill the Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR). Students can fulfill the ELWR by achieving certain scores on the SAT ...