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 ...

I remember spending hours commenting painstakingly on my students’ papers when I was a graduate student teaching in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. My students loved our classes ...

Writing well takes time. Writing well does not mean just sitting down and beginning to write sentences until you reach the page limit. Starting writing the night before your assignment is due doesn't ...