At many colleges, professors trained in the discipline of rhetoric and composition are finding that the specialized knowledge they bring to teaching writing is held in thrall to older notions of how ...

"Basic Work and Material Acts" summarizes what we have learned from mainstreaming basic writers in first-year composition at California State University, Chico. We found that "basic writing" as an ...

Successful authors know that the first line of any writing has to be strong enough to capture the reader’s attention – otherwise they won’t continue reading. …but Mark Twain, for example, didn’t have ...

This article explores the particular challenges and possibilities of service learning pedagogy for basic writers. Because a number of scholars of service learning and basic writing (Adler-Kassner, ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When speaking of digital markets and the recent norm of content marketing, a common dilemma arises. The entire industry often gets ...