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 ...

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Extended "discourse," such as class presentations or essays written as school assignments, has a particular structure arising from particular expectations and standards. Such structure, expectations, ...

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There are few things students may dread more than a writing assignment, but it shouldn’t be this way. Just as phonics are the steps to advanced reading, elementary writing is a skill set your child ...