Admission for Yale creative writing courses remains exceptionally competitive, even as the English department says it will take steps to make its offering more accessible. The department has seen ...

I f there’s been one constant in the nearly 30 years Kerry L. Beckford has been teaching, it’s this: College students aren’t particularly excited to take a required composition course. So Beckford, a ...

Let’s get this out of the way immediately: I have a Ph.D. in English, more specifically, in rhetoric and composition. My decades of academic life have been occupied by the study and teaching of ...

It has been said that poetry “is the sound of language organized in lines,” (James Longenbach) and we might aspire to put “the best words in the best order,” (Samuel Coleridge) but poetry is also a ...

Writing is a much-prized skill and a difficult one to master and, while some are naturally gifted in stringing sentences together, we all need to take the time to learn the craft. Whether you want to ...

Starting in autumn quarter 2025, the University will begin a multi-year restructuring of the undergraduate writing program, which had previously run concurrently with the humanities Core sequence.

Finnish is the language of instruction in the Finnish courses organised by Language Services. The ”Finnish in Finnish” method has been proven to accelerate and to enhance learning; the progression of ...