A talk with Alice Twemlow, co-founder of the MFA Design Criticism program at the School of Visual Arts. You don't go to art school to learn to write, right? Wrong. These days, art departments are as ...

Travis Grandy is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Find him on Twitter @travisgrandy or at his website. I work with a lot of instructors who use ...

In our speedy digital era, finding the right writing gear can provide the analog grounding necessary to nurture creativity and capture those fleeting ingenious moments. Whether you’re jotting down ...

This rigorous one-year program equips students with tools for researching, chronicling, and interpreting all aspects of design. Each student is asked to identify an individual research territory to ...

How exactly does this assignment fit with the objectives of your course? Should this assignment relate only to the class and the texts for the class, or should it also relate to the world beyond the ...

The School of Visual Arts MFA Design Criticism invites you to join them for a two-week intensive to research and write about design. Participants will be introduced to a range of techniques for ...

In February Howe Writing Across the Curriculum partnered with Howe Writing Center consultants to present a workshop series on Assignment Design, focusing on clarity, audience, and accessibility. Led ...

Ready to elevate your career? The one-year master’s degree in Design Research, Writing & Criticism (a.k.a D-Crit) is designed to empower the next generation of critical thinkers through research that ...

Does your writing need a workout? Join us online for our renowned two-week Summer Intensive, aimed at those who would like to refine their skills as thinkers, reporters and storytellers. For ...