Crossing the threshold from high school to college-level writing expectations constitutes a challenge for many students since secondary and post-secondary composition instructors often work under different constraints and are guided by different curricular philosophies. Dual enrollment classrooms provide a space where these differences can be…

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) create new common ground for high school-college collaborations through emphasis on expository writing in English language arts (ELA) and writing in content areas across the curriculum. This article, written collaboratively by a composition-rhetoric scholar and a secondary education leadership scholar who…

Urges popular science writers to reduce vocabulary to a level that can be comprehended by the average reader. (DD)

A teacher who has taught at the secondary and higher education levels recounts some student compositions that troubled him because of the information the students revealed about themselves. (IRT)

Points out the importance of objectivity in newspaper journalism. (RB)

Contains suggestions to improve the quality of secondary social studies students' writing. For example, teachers should stagger expository writing activities over an extended period. The intended audience of the writing should include the student's peers. (RM)

Modifies the analysis of causal relations in narratives to describe more broadly defined logical relations in expository text. Compares the relative sensitivity with which three different systems of prose analysis describe recall for expository text across different age groups and recall conditions. (SR)

Presents projects which combine creative and expository writing. (DD)

Discusses the development of good reading habits among writers, especially journalists, and suggests several books to aid the process. (RB)

Argues that excising the word "exposition" from the language of English teachers would be more beneficial than harmful. (JL)