The Daily Princetonian

Reevaluating the effectiveness of writing seminar

Every Monday and Wednesday evenings, a handful of other freshmen and I meet for an hour and a half for our writing seminar. It makes sense. Many other colleges and universities have similarly ...
The Daily Princetonian

Writing Seminar should be PDFable again

Five years ago, a columnist for The Daily Princetonian argued that first-year Writing Seminar should be pass/D/fail (PDF)-only. Then, when COVID-19 struck, his argument was tested: Princeton made ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Penn pilots first critical writing seminar for transfer students

Penn is piloting its first writing seminar only for sophomore transfer students this fall, taught by Fayyaz Vellani at Rodin College House. Credit: Anna Vazhaeparambil Penn has launched a new writing ...
Bow Doin Polar Bears

First-Year Writing Seminar

First-Year Writing Seminars (FYWS) are small classes (16 students max) that meet twice a week. For many people, they are also one of the most memorable academic experiences of their four years at ...
The Chronicle

Duke expands writing and select seminar class sizes amid cost pressures

First-year writing courses will expand to 17 students next fall, a stark increase from the 12-student cap Duke had in 2021.
Brandeis University

University Writing Seminar

Objectives The First Year Writing Program at Brandeis University is the foundation of the University Writing Program. The University Writing Seminar introduces students to the power of writing as a ...
Indianapolis Recorder

Butler University to host free spring and summer writing workshop series for community

Butler University is partnering with local libraries and bookstores to host free writing workshops this spring and summer.
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Writing seminars strive to become paper-free

About three years ago, most writing seminar readings and assignments moved online to Blackboard. Then last fall in an initiative run by the Penn Writing Center, digital portfolios began replacing the ...
Boston College

First-Year Writing Seminars

The First-Year Writing Seminar fulfills the core requirement in Writing. Designed as a workshop in which each student develops a portfolio of personal and academic writing, the writing seminar ...
HUB

Writing Seminars chair Dora Malech named senior advisor to the provost for the arts

Malech will serve as head of the Office of the Arts, leading the implementation of the recommendations laid out by the university's Taskforce on the Arts and guiding the continued development of a ...
Poynter

What I learned from the writing teacher who changed my work forever

This third entry in an occasional series from Roy Peter Clark, who witnessed the Poynter Institute’s founding, explores its history in honor of its 50th anniversary. It would be hard to estimate how ...