This article examines two course redesigns undertaken to improve student learning, and retention in the basic writing program at Oakland University, a doctoral research university in southeast ...
This article explores the particular challenges and possibilities of service learning pedagogy for basic writers. Because a number of scholars of service learning and basic writing (Adler-Kassner, ...
It was the e-mail he received from a teacher that sealed Craig Toensing’s decision to make grammar count on the Connecticut Mastery Tests. Contained within the ...
Academic writing differs greatly from other types of writing. It gives not that much space for creativity, but rather requires structure, research, and analysis. That is why students do not feel ...
The ubiquity of e­mail means that everyone in business, from lords of finance to programmers who dream in code, needs to write intelligently. By using simple, clear, precise language, and following a ...
Perennially best-selling novelist Sue Miller will be in Saratoga Springs Saturday to read from her work at Northshire Bookstore. Miller's newest work "The Arsonist" (Knopf, 2014) explores the idea of ...
Nearly three quarters of American students who took the first-ever computer-based national writing exam did not communicate effectively, even when allowed to use spell check, a thesaurus and other ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — In this digital age, children are growing up surrounded by screens. For many children, screen time is now part of playtime; and early child education experts say this is becoming a ...
The California Education Code and Title 5 Regulations specify that applicants for a credential, certificate, or permit to serve in the public schools of California must verify basic skills proficiency ...