Over the spring, undergraduate Program for Writing and Rhetoric students developed research support for the Academic Futures Committee. They looked at current educational research on their topic, ...

In our previous discussion, we explored the informal dynamics of remote communication, adopting a conversational approach. Today, however, we’ll shift our focus to a more formal yet equally important ...

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 ...

Students complete a First-Year Writing Seminar Selection process prior to matriculation, in order to determine which of several environments will provide the best seminar experience for them. (This ...

Stereotypical academic writing is rigid, dry, and mechanical, delivering prose that evokes memories of high school and undergraduate laboratory reports. The hallmark of this stereotype is passive ...

A few years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I presented a paper at my department’s American Literature Colloquium. (A colloquium is a sort of writing workshop for graduate students.) ...

Gordon Rugg received funding from the Government Office of the East Midlands for some of the work reported in the article "Selection and use of elicitation techniques for education research". If ...