| Sumario: | Why writing matters in higher education. At the 1966 Dartmouth Seminar, scholars gathered to debate the direction of English Studies in the academy. This debate had far-reaching effects and arguably forever changed writing instruction in the United States. To commemorate the 45th anniversary of this gathering, Dartmouth College hosted an event celebrating the past and looking toward the future. Then as now, writing well matters, and it matters in institutions of higher education across disciplines. Scholars and public intellectuals (including New York Times best-selling authors David McCullough and Steve Strogatz) from the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and interdisciplinary fields engage some of the controversial questions related to writing today. Each anchor article--representing disciplines as varied as musicology, African studies, mathematics, and history--receives responses from Dartmouth faculty and nationally-renowned faculty members in writing studies programs.
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