Teaching

Author discusses his new book about “killing the five-paragraph essay” and other ways schools and colleges could do a better job of teaching writing.

Kent Cartwright examines some of the strengths and weaknesses of the English major and reports that the news is not all bad.

A decline in the English major is a crisis not of marketing but rather of public imagination, argues Jennifer Clifton.

An uncredentialed writing instructor, Gizem Karaali, shares some effective tools learned through trial and error.

How do professors respond to regrade requests? One department encourages instructors to pass them up the chain.

Such feelings aren't more common in people of any particular gender, observes Roshini Pinto-Powell.

Legislation in California concerning ESL instruction reflects a huge lack of understanding of what it takes for the human brain to learn another language, writes Parviz Parsafar.

Health sciences final exam question on gangs, race and graffiti rubs some the wrong way at Cal State Long Beach. Now the professor is under investigation.