University Writing

Dispatch from the in-between

University Writing instructor Ilana Manaster on being both a professor and a student.

By Ilana Manaster | Jan 26 06:51 pm ET

Get some (Core) class

All Columbia undergraduates have to take them—the required classes that constitute our early years. But do they go on to constitute part of us? This week, four students assess the foundations of our education. Jennifer Fearon examines what it means to re-read classics in Barnard’s First-Year English, Joseph Rozenshtein writes off University Writing, Sarah Ngu suggests it simply needs a few edits, and Neil Fitzpatrick merges the practical and the pedantic in his position on Literature Humanities.

By Sarah Ngu, Jennifer Fearon, Joseph Rozenshtein, and Neil FitzPatrick | Nov 15 10:45 pm ET

Teaching useful writing in UW

Whether we are strong or weak writers, there is value in learning—or re-learning—the basic structures and conventions of argument, rhetoric, and style.

By Joseph Rozenshtein | Nov 15 06:16 pm ET

Reflections on University Writing

The sphere of academic writing encompasses much more than the literary sphere of novels and poems, which is what essay-writing is generally confined to in high school.

By Sarah Ngu | Nov 15 06:12 pm ET

Core consistency

I sat, an Iliad-literate prep school graduate utterly unprepared for the baffling question professor Zeus had posed for the deliberation of the mere mortals: “Why, then, is Trojan the number-one selling condom brand in the United States?"

By Caitlin Brown | Sep 15 07:20 pm ET

Wish I were sleeping instead of writing this

To tell Columbia students that they suffer from lack of sleep is like telling a deaf person he cannot hear. We know. Everyone knows.

By Claudia Sosa Lazo | Apr 19 07:47 pm ET

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