The Academic Senate voted last week to change the way students can progress beyond English 57, the writing composition class formerly known as Subject A and which is a prerequisite for all other ...

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 ...

We need to do a much better job of teaching our students to write effectively. Effective writing is far too important to be left to freshman rhetoric and composition courses or designated writing ...

In the kind of writing most of us do every day—the kind of writing I’ve mainly been concerned with in these columns—the only criteria that matter are clarity and precision. The kind of writing that ...

The nominations for the Academic Inquiry Seminars (AIQS) writing prizes are now open! Faculty and students may nominate work from their spring 2025 AIQS and Academic English (AIAE) courses. The Karl ...

Did you write a great Academic Inquiry Seminar (AIQS) essay? The Writing Program and the Department of English seeks nominations for AIQS Writing Prizes. The Karl Lemmerman Prize for First-Year ...

If you want to go to grad school, you’re likely considering the GRE. This is a test I know a lot about, and one stat that stands out to me is that the average score on the analytical writing section ...

Each GRE verbal or quantitative reasoning test produces a total score from 130-170 in 1-point increments, where the analytical writing test receives a score between 0 and 6 in half-point increments.

In the 2007 movie “Freedom Writers,” Hilary Swank stands in front of a classroom of troubled high schoolers. They need to write down their stories, she tells them. Otherwise, when they die, “no one is ...