Famed author and University of Chicago alumna Susan Sontag, AB’51, once wrote: “I write—and talk—in order to find out what I think.” A new course in the College is allowing first-years to put that ...

Have you ever poured hours into an academic paper only to lose marks over simple mistakes or unclear feedback? You’re not alone. Academic writing is full of pitfalls—plagiarism, weak arguments, poor ...

Bestselling author Anne Lamott drew a sold-out audience to Napa Valley College on Tuesday for an hourlong conversation about writing, friendship and the lessons of age. Lamott, a Guggenheim Fellow and ...

Sept 23 (Reuters) - In castigating lawyers for President Donald Trump last week for filing a “florid” and unfocused 85-page defamation complaint against the New York Times, Senior U.S. District Judge ...

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.

The increasing adoption of high-throughput “omics” technologies has heightened the demand for standardized, scalable, and reproducible bioinformatics workflows. Nextflow and nf-core provide a robust ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has ...

Very few movies don’t contain some kind of moral message designed to show us a better path, a better way of living, or to teach us how to be better people. In some cases it’s because the filmmakers ...

The way we express ourselves in writing today differs greatly from the formal way of writing letters in the past. We’re so used to firing off emails and texts using shorthand that some habits have ...

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — Cursive writing is making a return to Georgia classrooms this school year, thanks to updated English Language Arts standards from the Georgia Department of Education. Starting ...