A team of researchers has hit on a surprisingly simple way to potentially narrow the achievement gaps that widen between African-American and white students in middle school: Have students write for ...

First-Year Writing courses at UMass Lowell are designed to develop students’ abilities to use writing in their current and future work and lives. While in these courses, students learn about how ...

What do you genuinely care about? It’s a deceptively simple question, but one we often neglect answering for ourselves. As a result, we tend to focus our efforts and energies on tasks that don’t truly ...

“I value the new language that I learned from the summer Fellows program,” says Professor Suzanne Kunkel. “Metacognition, rhetorical flexibility, rhetorical awareness—they named a lot of the things we ...

Writing-attentive courses accomplish these goals in five main areas: integration, scaffolding, revision, writing to learn, and writing to communicate. Writing is here construed broadly, to include ...