Corrected: An earlier version of this story misstated Steve Graham’s affiliation. He is a professor at Arizona State University. If you want a hint of the gap between students’ writing skills and ...

Often when writing for an audience, we try to use complex words to sound smarter. This train of thought is misleading, though. Complex words and sentences only make our writing unreadable to our ...

The department of English at Bowdoin College takes a broad and varied approach to the study of Anglophone literature and media. Our courses share the common goal of teaching students to engage closely ...