In Composition 101 at the University of Tennessee, students learn the basic elements of rhetoric and about how it applies to writing they...

On the first day of school, after the usual introductions and syllabus review, I ask my students to pull out a sheet of paper and answer...

Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, whereas literature teaches us...

So we're supposed to be ourselves when we write. But what about audience? If we're supposed to write as ourselves, are we writing to...

Consider the opening lines of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables: Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England...