Re “The Lobotomized Weasel School of Writing,” Commentary, May 20: I vehemently disagree with Crispin Sartwell’s characterization of the five-paragraph essay as “hoo-ha.” While he explains that ...
Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Fall 1990), pp. 25-34 (10 pages) Evaluating basic writing textbooks for human interest is complex, yet basic-level writing students ...
Talk shows require an insane amount of material. Four nights a week, late-night writers have to produce a monologue’s worth of jokes, plus desk bits, sketches, remote pieces, and whatever else the ...
Ever been tasked with writing to accomplish a specific objective? It sounds like an easy job, but when you sit down to actually start writing, you think, “Isn’t there some sort of road map I should be ...
This article examines two course redesigns undertaken to improve student learning, and retention in the basic writing program at Oakland University, a doctoral research university in southeast ...