First-year students in a required English composition class at the University of Delaware have gone far beyond the basic description of the introductory course, writing essays arguing for social ...

Welcome! The primary mission of the SUNY Cortland Composition Program is to engage students in developing transferable writing knowledge, skills, and processes that they will further refine as they ...

Welcome to Freshman Composition at UAB! Our first year composition courses are designed to promote your success as a writer both inside and outside of the classroom. Our small, hands-on classrooms ...

An advanced introduction to rhetoric and composition as a framework for writing research and writing instruction. The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, in ...

On this page you will find informational handouts to support you with various stages of the writing process. Whether you need help starting a paper, doing some self-editing of grammar, or working on ...

College Composition and Communication publishes research and scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies that supports college teachers in reflecting on and improving their practices in teaching ...

In the New York Times obituary of Peter Elbow, the giant of composition studies, he is said to have “transformed freshman comp,” which he definitely did, but also, maybe not? Even as someone who has ...

A case study of the evaluation of a three-year pilot project in mainstreaming basic writers at City College of New York suggests that the social and political contexts of a project need to be taken ...