Having students move beyond descriptive paragraphs and five-paragraph essays can help improve their ability to write—and their love of doing it.

Back in my late 20s and early 30s, somewhere on the way to learning how to write like a grownup, I learned the rules for constructing a paragraph. Here on the verge of 63 and retirement, I find that ...

W courses have two purposes: to develop expository writing skills and to teach the use of writing as a means of creating and processing knowledge. W1 courses are introductory. They have as one of ...