Here’s One Writing Prof Who Gets Results
May 08, 2013 by George Leef |
To teach students how to write well, explains John Maguire, train them to use active verbs and build good sentences.
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The “Write” Stuff
Nov 01, 2012 by Jason Fertig |
Employers continue to hire - and complain about - college graduates who can't write well.
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Ask a Scholar: That vs. Who
Sep 18, 2012 by David J. Rothman |
Writing scholar provides insight on the usage of personal and impersonal pronouns.
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UK Students And Their Blooping History Exams
Jul 20, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
UK history students demonstrate blooping proficiency.
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Signs of the Times: The Queen’s English Society Folds
Jun 27, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
Defending the Queen's English is a very hard sell these days.
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Leaving the Land of Digital Natives
May 29, 2012 by Camilo Jiménez, Will H. Corral |
Journalist and editor Camilo Jimenéz explains that he resigned from teaching because the vast majority of his privileged, private school-educated students could not compose a single error-free paragraph properly summarizing… Continue Reading | 2 Comments >
They’re Not Unteachable
May 23, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
It's more difficult, but certainly not impossible, to teach today's college students.
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The Unteachables: A Generation That Cannot Learn
May 22, 2012 by Janice Fiamengo |
An English professor wonders how to teach students who can't learn.
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Ze Only Confuses Hir Students: Teaching Gender Neutral Pronouns
May 16, 2012 by Ashley Thorne |
If gender is pliable, why not grammar?
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How to Be Succinct
May 01, 2012 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood suggests ways to keep it short.
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The Terrible Textbooks of Freshman Comp
Mar 27, 2012 by Mary Grabar |
The anthologies used in many freshman composition courses tell students what to think, not how to write.
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Sentenced
Nov 08, 2011 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood weighs Stanley Fish’s new book on how to teach college rhetoric.
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Why I Might Stop Assigning Essays
Oct 05, 2011 by Jason Fertig |
Jason Fertig weighs the importance of teaching students to write against the other demands on faculty members' time.
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Down with Research Papers, Up with Essays
Aug 10, 2011 by George Leef |
That’s the argument Professor Thomas Bertonneau makes in this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call. Research papers, he contends, merely encourage students to cobble together opinions by “research” that consists… Continue Reading | 1 Comment >
Colleges Ignore the Most Basic of Skills—Writing
Jun 22, 2011 by George Leef |
In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, Professor Murray Sperber points out that most college courses do little or nothing to help students become good (or even moderately competent) at that most basic of skills -- writing.
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