To make people trust your writing, always use correct grammar and spelling. Do your research well and mention where you got ...

At many colleges, professors trained in the discipline of rhetoric and composition are finding that the specialized knowledge they bring to teaching writing is held in thrall to older notions of how ...

*Writing is one of the skills acquired during early childhood. Even with the gradual obsolescence of handwriting, the writing ...

Intro to Grant Writing Basics: Who: Beginner and intermediate grant writers What: This brief introduction to grant writing will review the proposal process and basic elements of a grant required for a ...

Successful authors know that the first line of any writing has to be strong enough to capture the reader’s attention – otherwise they won’t continue reading. …but Mark Twain, for example, didn’t have ...

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, ...

"Basic Work and Material Acts" summarizes what we have learned from mainstreaming basic writers in first-year composition at California State University, Chico. We found that "basic writing" as an ...