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Stephen Combs

Stephen Combs taught freshman composition at Valencia College, a Florida community college, until last year. A former daily newspaper editor and reporter, he now writes mostly on higher education and national economic policy and works with high school students on preparing to write in college. He is the co-author, most recently, of O.J. Simpson & Glen Rogers: The Juice, Road Dog, & Murder on Bundy Drive (Barnes & Bauer, 2018).

Articles by Stephen Combs

How Political Indoctrination Destroyed the Promise of Learning in College Writing Courses

Sep 7, 2018 · · Comments Off on How Political Indoctrination Destroyed the Promise of Learning in College Writing Courses

By wide agreement of writing professors and composition scholars, new freshmen arrive not only ill-prepared for college writing but many show little improvement after four years of undergraduate education. In … Continue reading “How Political Indoctrination Destroyed the Promise of Learning in College Writing Courses”

Freshman Comp: Often More About Politics than Sentences

Jul 31, 2015 · · Comments Off on Freshman Comp: Often More About Politics than Sentences

Colleges and universities should tell all writing faculty to focus their courses on improving students’ ability to write and to keep their political agendas out of it. At the very least, they should require full disclosure on course syllabi so that students can avoid professors who insist on instilling political activism rather than just teaching them how to write.