Power relations and hierarchies, as well as spaces for freedom and change, are created through language and shared through writing practices. Writing centers are often seen as mechanisms for norming ...

What do you genuinely care about? It’s a deceptively simple question, but one we often neglect answering for ourselves. As a result, we tend to focus our efforts and energies on tasks that don’t truly ...

A team of researchers has hit on a surprisingly simple way to potentially narrow the achievement gaps that widen between African-American and white students in middle school: Have students write for ...

Writing-attentive courses accomplish these goals in five main areas: integration, scaffolding, revision, writing to learn, and writing to communicate. Writing is here construed broadly, to include ...

African-American school students asked to write about their personal values for fifteen minutes at the start of the school year earn higher grades for up to two years afterwards. The work is a ...

Recently, we asked our employees to share their biggest concern about our organization. Among the complaints about avocados and dedicated desk space, a clear front-runner emerged. Our team’s main ...

Colleagues in developmental psychology Associate Teaching Professor Brooke Spangler-Cropenbaker and Assistant Professor Vrinda Kalia were skeptical when they first started the Howe Faculty Writing ...

As everyone in our community is aware, Generative AI (GenAI) is creating rapid change in academic and professional landscapes, with particular implications for writing instruction, development, and ...

First-Year Writing courses at UMass Lowell are designed to develop students’ abilities to use writing in their current and future work and lives. While in these courses, students learn about how ...