A team of researchers has hit on a surprisingly simple way to potentially narrow the achievement gaps that widen between African-American and white students in middle school: Have students write for ...

First-Year Writing courses at UMass Lowell are designed to develop students’ abilities to use writing in their current and future work and lives. While in these courses, students learn about how ...

Writing-attentive courses accomplish these goals in five main areas: integration, scaffolding, revision, writing to learn, and writing to communicate. Writing is here construed broadly, to include ...

“I value the new language that I learned from the summer Fellows program,” says Professor Suzanne Kunkel. “Metacognition, rhetorical flexibility, rhetorical awareness—they named a lot of the things we ...

The Writing and Communication Center cultivates a supportive environment where students grow as writers and communicators. Guided by our vision, mission, and values, we offer personalized ...

As everyone in our community is aware, Generative AI (GenAI) is creating rapid change in academic and professional landscapes, with particular implications for writing instruction, development, and ...