To make a forced and artificial division, we might say that there exist Jane Austen novels of youth and folly: Emma and Northanger Abbey. The novels of coming-of-age and responsibility: Sense and ...

In the last decade, the field of Rhetoric and Composition has responded to the explosion of cell phones, digital social media, and mobile internet access with a deep concern for what it ultimately ...

A group of Lafayette second-graders were tasked with designing cookies and using their words to persuade a bakery to make them. It worked. Cookie Mama, a home bakery in Youngsville, brought their ...

Statue of Aristotle at the Athens Academy in Greece.. Photo: Getty Images What does a man born in 384 BCE have to teach the modern writer? A lot. When I teach persuasive writing, participants are ...