The prize honors Professor Emerita Dr. Bernadine P. Carlson, who joined Western Michigan University’s Department of English in 1953. During her thirty-three-year tenure at Western Michigan University, ...

As a rhetoric and writing studies major or minor, you’ll design a program of study that fits your interests and needs. After completing Introduction to Professional Writing, you’ll fulfill your degree ...

Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, writing allows you to, at once, name your pain and create distance from it.

To learn the art of travel writing, one must travel. At the University of Delaware, Professor Michael McCamley leads courses in travel writing and introduction to rhetoric and writing studies, taught ...

Specific writing strategies can play an important role in boosting reading comprehension. That’s the bottom-line finding of a new analysis of research. The report, out today from the Carnegie ...

The Major Writing Requirement is a writing assignment done as an extra part of a course. The assignment is designed so you can practice your writing and get instructor feedback. This will help shape ...

Academics may have finally pinpointed the predecessor to humanity’s first written language. Three researchers from the University of Bologna contributed to this longstanding debate in the latest issue ...

A recent study suggests that a little handwriting instruction can go a long way in staving off writing problems. The report, by researchers at the University of Maryland College Park is based on a ...

As civilizations die, so do their forms of writing, top scholars of ancient cultures found in the first study to examine the extinction of writing systems. The research also showed that ancient ...

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.