Writing, math help centers attendance steadily increasing
Help centers on campus designed to assist students in writing and math have seen a significant jump within the last year. The Writing Center, with four locations on campus, added 2,000 sessions during the 2010-11 academic year, said Steven Bailey, assistant professor of composition and rhetoric and interim director of the [...]
The Medical Minute: Writing your way to better health
When I have spoken about writing and depression, many people respond that they can understand the relationship -- whenever they have to write, they get depressed. That might have been the situation when they were in school, diagramming sentences and writing with many guidelines and restrictions. But what I’m referring to is how writing can help ease depression. Writing can help improve a number ...
Writing the Dave Sharrett Story: Vol. 6, Writing It
This is the sixth in an ongoing series of posts attempting to bring the readers along as a reporter researches, writes and publishes an article in The Washington Post. Over the last couple of months, I’ve done a great deal of reporting and interviewing about the case of Pfc. David H Sharrett II of Oakton, who died in a friendly fire incident in Iraq in 2008. I’ve spoken with soldiers who were ...
Stephanie Vanderslice: Creative Writing Can Be Taught: Creative Writing Professors Answer More Important Questions
On January 11th, 2012, Anis Shivani published a screed called "Can Creative Writing Be Taught? Therapy for the Disaffected Masses." He's not accurately portraying what we do in creative writing. We invite him and others to take a closer look at the exciting things happening in our field.
Writing program wins honor | News
When Kirsten Benson, the interim director of composition at UT, got the brief e-mail announcing that UT’s Writing Program had won the Certificate of Excellence from the Conference on College Composition and Communication, she sat in denial for almost a full minute. Then, she seized a copy of the ...
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