Scoring first and scoring fast is a textbook recipe for winning football. That’s one of the many ways that the No. 4 Oregon Ducks (2-0)... In a week full of blowout wins for Big Ten teams, Dan Lanning ...

It’s okay to lubricate the flow of consciousness once you’re writing in your journal; however, if you want to talk to others, you’ll have to sort out those depressing thoughts. Here are some tips ...

Whether you’re looking for a job or are among the millions of remote workers, your writing skills have never been more important. Here’s how to brush up and get better. Great communication is critical ...

Believe it or not, solid writing skills still count for something in today's world. When you craft a brochure, a business report, or Web site copy that reads like a third-grader wrote it, it reflects ...

Claudia Alant, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student from Niskayuna, N.Y., has worked for the Writing Commons for five semesters. Since she was in high school, Alant has participated in ...

The art of writing, invented roughly 5,000 years ago, represents a blip in human history. It’s younger than agriculture, music, and construction. And as recently as the Revolutionary War, a majority ...

Writing is a skill often relegated to the backdrop of a student's academic journey, overshadowed by grades, majors, and extracurricular activities. However, the ability to write clearly and ...

Specific writing strategies can play an important role in boosting reading comprehension. That’s the bottom-line finding of a new analysis of research. The report, out today from the Carnegie ...

Over ten million students represented by PISA, the OECD index for measuring education levels, were not able to complete the most basic reading tasks in 2018. In the UK one in five people left primary ...

English is one of the most nuanced, complex languages in existence today. With approximately 372 million speakers in 106 countries, it’s also one of the most widely spoken languages. Whether English ...

In a recent opinion essay, I defended the primacy of traditional literacy skills against the National Council of Teachers of English ’s mystifying call to “decenter” them. In this essay, I will ...

The Literacy Project is being supported by two local theater productions, "The Belle of Amherst" and "Take Ten." ...