Starting in autumn quarter 2025, the University will begin a multi-year restructuring of the undergraduate writing program, which had previously run concurrently with the humanities Core sequence.

One BU student, who wished to remain anonymous, says she used AI for writing in general education classes, which she didn’t ...

Writing Intensive (WI) courses embrace the responsibility to prepare students for the writing tasks they will encounter as their intellectual careers at Smith unfold. Accordingly, first-year students ...

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 ...

This fall, thanks to receiving a high score on the Advanced Placement English Language and Composition exam, hundreds of thousands of incoming freshmen are going to dodge their college or university’s ...

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 ...

In May 2025 an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education posed the question: Are students no longer reading in college courses? This article was serendipitously published just days before educators ...

1 World Ready Language Track (WR track) requires successful completion of a two course sequence in a World Language (depending on placement) and three approved ...

The Creative Writing Program offers students a coherent course of study in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The creative writing minor is firmly grounded within the liberal arts tradition, ...

Educators who teach first-year writing courses need to use their leverage to ensure students arrive on campus with skills that match expectations, writes Daniel M. Gross What is college-level writing?

Let’s get this out of the way immediately: I have a Ph.D. in English, more specifically, in rhetoric and composition. My decades of academic life have been occupied by the study and teaching of ...

The Creative Writing minor invites students outside the English major who are interested in writing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction to study the reading and writing of those literary genres ...