Writing

Oh, the papers you will write

More students ought to ensure that their writing enters a public forum.

Dispatch from the in-between

University Writing instructor Ilana Manaster on being both a professor and a student.

Reading between the lines

Our undergraduate experience should be remembered by more than the papers we wrote and the grades we received.

How to write an opinion column

I have meandered from style to style, approach to approach, method to method in my mental column-writing process, and while I wish I could close this entry with some sort of consummation to my quest for a column Way, that still hasn’t come.

A Critical Look at Critical Reading, Critical Writing

As an undergraduate at a college that fetishizes requirements—batteries upon batteries for each student, major, and program of study regardless of AP score, entrance exam, or other metric of prior

The Right Way to Write

Sometimes it seems like coming home from college is one big test of how many times you can answer the questions, “How is school?” and, “Do you LOVE New York?” without exploding.