Students complete a First-Year Writing Seminar Selection process prior to matriculation, in order to determine which of several environments will provide the best seminar experience for them. (This ...

The Directed Self-Placement (DSP) is a a series of online activities designed to help entering students determine which first-year composition course is the right choice for them. How do I complete ...

Most directly admitted first year students at RIT will be advised to enroll in a section of First Year Writing (UWRT 150). Students who have approved transfer credit for a first year writing course, ...

Every Brandeis education is fueled by exploration, imagination, inquiry, creativity and participation in our diverse community. The First-Year Seminar program is an exciting launchpad for your ...

Allycia Uhrhan’s 6th graders at Truman Middle School in St. Louis started their field-science week collecting data on fish hatching at nearby Forest Park. But the trip really started the prior week, ...

Having a firm grasp on academic level reading and writing in English is a requirement to graduate from college, but it doesn't have to be a barrier to enrolling. At College of Lake County (CLC), the ...

Most of my faculty colleagues agree that Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), in which the task of teaching writing is one assigned to all professors, not just those who teach English or composition, ...

In recent years, I’ve read that the quality of machine translation has improved drastically. Nevertheless, I was quite unprepared when machine translation became an issue in my own course on academic ...