A high school teacher describes how she teaches her students that disciplinary literacy is more than ‘fancy’ vocabulary.

For years I’ve tried to figure out how to get my “Introduction to Literature” students--99 percent of them not English majors--to appreciate literature. And by “appreciate,” I don’t mean “like.” ...

Provides a basic skills course designed to equip students to handle the English major. Emphasizes critical writing and the acquisition of basic techniques and vocabulary of literary criticism through ...

New studies using an MRI machine to track the flow of blood in the brain show how close reading of literacy texts increases multiple complex cognitive functions. In this experiment, participants were ...

Explores how texts travel beyond their cultures of origin, influence other cultural contexts and ideas, and become works of world literature. Introduces the concepts of cross-cultural literary ...

Like millions of fans, Rachel Lapp was ecstatic when Taylor Swift released her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, in spring 2024. An instructional designer at the University of Delaware ...

This course provides a basic skills course designed to equip students to handle the English major. Emphasizes critical writing and the acquisition of basic techniques and vocabulary of literary ...