The transition from structured classroom work and research to writing a dissertation can cause graduate students to feel isolated, like they’re writing in a vacuum. To help them feel more grounded, ...

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 ...

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 ...

One semester after participating in the HCWE Faculty Writing Fellows Program, art history faculty Annie Dell’Aria, Jordan Fenton, and Pepper Stetler are using their guide to writing in art history to ...

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 ...

The Writing and Communication Center cultivates a supportive environment where students grow as writers and communicators. Guided by our vision, mission, and values, we offer personalized ...

As everyone in our community is aware, Generative AI (GenAI) is creating rapid change in academic and professional landscapes, with particular implications for writing instruction, development, and ...

“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 ...