The art of writing, invented roughly 5,000 years ago, represents a blip in human history. It’s younger than agriculture, music, and construction. And as recently as the Revolutionary War, a majority ...

Even before complications wrought by AI, faculty members and students alike have often dreaded college writing assignments—students because of painful past histories with the process and faculty ...

Shaping Peer Writing Feedback in a Virtual World Amid a shifting university landscape, where hybrid and online courses are growing as common as omelette bars and smartboards, creating virtual spaces ...

During peer editing yesterday, I did not get my paper edited like it should have been. I left class crying because they were making fun of how I was writing all over the person’s paper I was editing.

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In high school, Abby Block didn’t think of herself as a writer. But today, the second-year student is a consultant at RIT’s Writing Center, providing the very same encouragement that transformed her ...

(This is the final post in a five-part series. You can see Part One here; Part Two here; Part Three here, and Part Four here.) The new question-of-the-week is: How do you get students to want to ...

Claudia Alant, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student from Niskayuna, N.Y., has worked for the Writing Commons for five semesters. Since she was in high school, Alant has participated in ...

Although the importance of academic writing skills for medical students has been recognized, there is a lack of systematic investigation into students’ learning needs, particularly for students at ...