[Opinion] Why First-Year Comp Classes Give Me Hope (opinion)

Why First-Year Comp Classes Give Me Hope (opinion)

Imagine the kinds of critical thinkers we could graduate if we put expository writing courses at the center of the curriculum, Deborah Lindsay Williams writes. First-year composition courses, which are required of incoming students at many colleges and universities, lack cachet. No student gets excited about a comp class, and the faculty who teach these classes usually occupy the low rungs on the academic ladder. And right now, as crisis after c…