Feedback from peers and students’ reflection on their own writing have multiple benefits: they help students improve as writers; promote their agency, metacognition, and deep learning; and lighten our ...

Dan Melzer, associate director of first-year composition at the University of California, Davis, shook up the research on teaching college-level writing in 2014 with his book Assignments Across the ...

An Alamance County middle school teacher helped her students analyze texts to improove their reading comprehension.

The art of writing, invented roughly 5,000 years ago, represents a blip in human history. It’s younger than agriculture, music, and construction. And as recently as the Revolutionary War, a majority ...

Over the course of Lau’s teaching career at CU, which spans an MA in Spanish Literature and now a doctoral degree in Ethnic Studies, they have taught a range of courses including Contemporary African ...

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of generating polished, grammatically correct text that meets academic standards, educators face a critical challenge: How can we teach students ...

At Smith, we believe writing is a crucial tool in all disciplines and that, as experts in their field, faculty are ideally positioned to teach it across the curriculum. Teaching students how to convey ...

Upper elementary teachers can channel students’ excitement around the changing season into thoughtful writing that incorporates all five senses.

Experts tend to complete writing tasks more quickly than novices by combining or skipping steps due to years of practice and mastery. Our students often come to us as novices who are still learning ...

A former full-time teacher and principal describes how she works to keep engagement high and learning fun when she is substituting.