Photo by NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images On writing, author David Sedaris once said, “You need to do the best that you can do, and then you need to take the best that you can do and ...

Psychologist Daniel Kahneman points out that "experienced happiness" refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers ...

Expressive writing is not a benign act of recounting the day’s events but a transformative tool for meaning-making. It gifts the opportunity to rewrite our lives’ narratives, repositioning ourselves ...

For decades, physician and author Silke Heimes has been leading groups in therapeutic exercises to put thoughts and feelings down on paper. Heimes, a professor of journalism at Darmstadt University of ...

The CWA writing courses are open to any undergraduate at Northwestern who has met the prerequisite of having already taken one writing-intensive course at Northwestern. They are taught by Visiting ...

With educators under enormous pressure to make sure students meet grade level standards in reading and math, writing often takes a back seat in the curriculum, as many literacy experts have observed.