The English Department's First-Year Writing Seminar (FWS) and Literature Core form a key part of BC's Core Curriculum. These courses are designed to complement each other by helping students to ...

Few Princeton students can forget their writing seminars. From the stress and confusion over the D1 to the feeling of accomplishment unique to finally submitting the R3, the mandatory first-year ...

My freshman year was generally a breeze — making new friends, experiencing Princeton — but for a single blight. The culprit? My writing seminar. To say I did not enjoy my seminar was a gross ...

The Brandeis First Year Experience aims to introduce new students to faculty and their different disciplinary perspectives, to model civil discourse, and to encourage participation in the rich ...

Penn is piloting its first writing seminar only for sophomore transfer students this fall, taught by Fayyaz Vellani at Rodin College House. Credit: Anna Vazhaeparambil Penn has launched a new writing ...

The First-Year Writing Seminar fulfills the core requirement in Writing. Designed as a workshop in which each student develops a portfolio of personal and academic writing, the writing seminar ...

This is a guest post by Derek Bruff, assistant director at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and senior lecturer in mathematics at Vanderbilt. You can follow Derek on Twitter (@derekbruff) ...

Ohio State is hosting two Writers’ Weekends this spring that will bring in nationally recognized authors to discuss writing techniques for children’s books, memoirs, autobiographies and personal ...

In an effort to conserve paper, writing seminars have been becoming progressively more digitized, with students even submitting end-of-course portfolios digitally. But for many students, these efforts ...

Imagine the scariest writing teacher you’ve ever had—disparaging, unpredictable, merciless—and you’ve got Leonard, the character played by Alan Rickman in the new Broadway play “Seminar,” by Theresa ...