Brandeis University

Motive: Why Writing Matters Across the Disciplines

Students in UWS learn that all writing is motivated (sometimes also referred to as the question, problem, so what?, or what’s at stake?). Everything, from an analytical essay to a grant proposal to a ...
Miami University

Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices Celebrates Miami Faculty and Promotes Deep, Systemic Change in Writing Across Disciplines

Miami faculty have long been recognized as innovative teachers and teacher/scholars. Those characteristics are on full display to a national audience in a new book available now for pre-order, ...
Inside Higher Ed

Rethinking Responding to Student Writing

Dan Melzer, associate director of first-year composition at the University of California, Davis, shook up the research on teaching college-level writing in 2014 with his book Assignments Across the ...
Miami University

Howe Writing Across the Curriculum

Howe Writing Across the Curriculum (HWAC), a division of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence (HCWE), keeps a staff of full-time administrators and part-time Graduate Assistant Directors. Our staff ...
Inside Higher Ed

Pulling Back the Veil on Disciplines

When students enroll in college, very few of them know the differences between faculty and teachers, school subjects and disciplines, or a liberal arts college versus a research university. To better ...
Bow Doin Polar Bears

First-Year Writing Seminar

The one course all students take their first semester at Bowdoin is a First-Year Writing Seminar (FYWS). First-Year Writing Seminars balance significant intellectual work with instruction in writing ...