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Without Landmark…

Students contemplate what life would be like for them without Landmark College.
Academic Writing

Academic writing generally refers to the kinds of prose used by college students, faculty, and researchers to write about subjects under study. Academic writing can be viewed as a kind of conversation, which is ongoing and open-ended: When new participants (students) join the conversation, they need to seek background information…
Active Reading

Active reading refers to a process of deliberately engaging with the ideas and information in a text and often transforming that information into notes or other artifacts that record one’s understanding of and response to the text. Active reading can be described as sustained inquiry, or as a reader having…
Critical Reading

Critical reading is a term sometimes used interchangeably with—or as a subcategory of—active reading. Like active reading, critical reading involves engaging with a text. But critical reading goes beyond merely reading for comprehension and retention; it is a way of thinking and delving deeply into a text for the purpose…
Organization

In speaking and writing, organization can refer to the overall structure, that is, the order of ideas and information or paragraphs within a speech or piece of writing; or the order of sentences within a paragraph. Some types of academic and professional writing have standardized or prescriptive structures that writers…
m+g2021-06

Please join us on Wednesday, August 18, at 6 p.m. (ET) for an online Meet and Greet for Fall 2021 families. Bob and Sandy Brown, along with their daughter, LC Alumna Rachel Brown ’16, invite you to attend an online meet and greet with other new Landmark College students and…
m+g2021-05

Please join us on Wednesday, August 11, at 6 p.m. (ET) for an online Meet and Greet for Fall 2021 families. Ned Snell, parent of LC Alumnus Matthew Snell ’21, and Bob and Sandy Brown, along with their daughter, LC Alumna Rachel Brown ’16, invite you to attend an online…
Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art and skill of persuasive communication. Sometimes it is defined more broadly as the art of effective communication by those who wish to recognize that the purpose of communicating is not always strictly to persuade. Usually, rhetoric refers to writing or speaking, but other modes of communication…
Virtual Accepted Students July 2021

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WAC Glossary

The goal of the Landmark College Writing Project Glossary is to provide a shared vocabulary to facilitate conversation among students, faculty, and staff about writing and about how we teach and support student writers. This conversation and common conceptual knowledge should strengthen the use of writing as a pedagogical tool…