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 ...
Search Engine Land

Writing people-first content: A process and template

A guide to writing helpful, reliable, people-first content that helps promote your business while ranking highly on search engines. Want to rank highly in 2024 and beyond? Then, you must create what ...
Western Michigan University

First-Year Writing Directory

is a graduate student working on her MFA in Poetry. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Spanish and minor in English with an emphasis on creative writing. Hannah is dedicated to pursuing a ...
Bow Doin Polar Bears

First-Year Writing Seminars

The seminars provide small class settings where students can engage with a particular topic, a professor, and their peers. Each fall, Bowdoin offers over thirty-five first-year writing seminars on ...
Psychology Today

25 Truths Learned While Writing a First Novel

I’m not a perfectionist and only a half-hearted procrastinator. Yet it took me a decade or more from that first thought of writing a novel to today, when I can lift my eyes and see copies of Kylie’s ...
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This offline-first writing app feels better than Google Docs

In our attention-addled times, it's critical to improve our creative focus. Typora blends the feel of a minimalist notepad with the power of Markdown. It strips away the usual clutter you see in ...
Psychology Today

What Your First Grader’s Writing Shows About Reading

In this second of a two-part post, I collaborate with co-author Dr. Molly Ness of Fordham University to show how analysis of writing in children as young as kindergarten shows evidence of foundational ...
Case Western Reserve University

First-Year Writing Seminar Selection

What Kind of Writer Are You? The Writing Program's First-Year Writing Seminar Selection process empowers first-year students to select the Academic Inquiry Semina r (AIQS) that best suits their needs ...