Coming up with points for expository compositions can be a bugbear for secondary students, especially if it’s an argumentative piece. You don’t just need to come up with content, you need to come up ...

For Matthew Pavesich, writing isn't something you learn how to do once and then you're done. Writing is something you learn, and then you learn some more, and then you learn even more, throughout your ...

At Secondary level, students are no longer forced to answer just one composition question. They’re instead given a variety of different questions that they can choose from, which can span multiple ...

The oldest independent periodical in the field, Composition Studies is an academic journal dedicated to the range of professional practices associated with rhetoric and composition: teaching college ...

I must respectfully disagree with the criticism leveled by the National Council of Teachers of English toward the new SAT writing requirement (“English Teachers Blast SAT Writing Test,” The Chronicle, ...

First-year composition courses, which are required of incoming students at many colleges and universities, lack cachet. No student gets excited about a comp class, and the faculty who teach these ...

Expository essays may be written on nearly any subject. They’re designed to supply understandable and valid information to the viewers. Expository documents are only essays that explain something with ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A zoo outreach program led to placing animals in classrooms where those animals became foci for numerous learning activities such as writing, ...

Dr. Staci M. Perryman-Clark is a professor of English and African American Studies at Western Michigan University. Her book (2013) Afrocentric Teacher-Research: Rethinking Appropriateness and ...