Despite already facing challenges in the transition from high school to college, USC freshmen often take on difficult courses such as the mandatory — and notorious — “Writing 150: Writing and Critical ...

There are no doubt some freshman composition courses where the students have to do a lot of serious writing and that writing is subjected to careful scrutiny by the professor. That kind of course ...

Karen Head is an assistant professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Literature, Media, and Communication, and director of the university’s Communication Center. She has been ...

The following is a guest post by Karen Head, an assistant professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Literature, Media, and Communication, and director of the institute’s ...

As adults, we sometimes forget how fortunate we are that we were taught to write as children. Even with advancements in technology allowing for on-the-fly spell-check, grammar edits and voice-to-text ...

Freshman composition, the one course that virtually every college student must take, is peculiarly vulnerable to becoming a course in the politics of the instructor or, in the case of departmentally ...

Move over, freshmen English classes. A new online course is getting ready to share the limelight. A team of librarians and software programmers at the Undergraduate Services Office in the library is ...