You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. This past weekend, I graded a round of essays in my first-year writing course. With three sections of ...

Students will read and respond to the YES! Magazine article, “This Artist Collects Your Worst Fears and Turns Them Into Something Great.” In this story, Julie M. Elman shares how she created The Fear ...

This is the first part in a two-part series about Penn’s Critical Writing Seminar. As the only required class for all undergraduates, the Critical Writing Seminar is widely considered a rite of ...

Cultural differences in rhetorical conventions may affect the paper's structure and organization. Writers may rely on rhetorical conventions that are used in their cultures. It takes time to learn and ...

Many teachers find that social media makes students engaged, creative writers. July 16, 2013 — -- Occasionally, Jennifer Woollven, an English teacher at West Lake High School in Austin, Texas, ...

“Justice for All” Student Writing Lesson Dig deep to identify and explain how you personally can treat people more justly. Describe what treating people fairly and humanely looks like to you. How ...

Julie Schumacher, a novelist and creative writing professor at the University of Minnesota, said that the string of campus shootings this spring across the country prompted a friend of hers to say, ...

Throughout my development as a secondary English teacher, I’ve found fiction and poetry effective in teaching students that reading literature can impact their lives. Over the past few years, though, ...

I’ve been teaching high school for 22 years, and even though requests wax and wane throughout the years, I write, on average, about 15 recommendation letters per year. That’s 330 letters at about ...

The Drexel Writing Center supports all members of our Drexel University community to develop as writers. We offer access to free, confidential consultations on writing projects, from interpreting ...

A new research brief has suggested just a quarter of students in middle school and high school write for at least 30 minutes a day, a minimum standard set by learning experts for the development of ...

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 ...