Two recent experiments highlight aspects of writing instruction that are rarely studied—or taught. Recent research suggests that secondary students can benefit significantly from learning how to ...

Writing happens in every classroom and for a range of instructional purposes. When writing is used as a mechanism for processing learning, metacognition, self-reflection, and problem-solving, this is ...

Writing Intensive (WI) courses embrace the responsibility to prepare students for the writing tasks they will encounter as their intellectual careers at Smith unfold. Accordingly, first-year students ...

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 ...

Writing using computers is a vital life skill. We are constantly texting, posting, blogging and emailing. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. This is a huge change for ...

Does thinking about spending hours grading student writing fill you with dread? It doesn’t have to! Writing is an essential activity for developing higher order thinking ability such as critical ...

Though the increased capabilities of AI writing tools, such as ChatGPT, cause concerns in education, there are several ways to integrate this technology as a means for helping students learn depending ...

Patty McGee is the author of Feedback That Moves Writers Forward (Corwin Literacy) and a literacy consultant with Gravity Goldberg LLC. Patty brings a vision for creating learning environments where ...

In a workshop to discuss how academic and creative writing are related, my colleagues and I spent most of our time talking about guilt. All of us felt guilty about the hours we had spent writing ...

(This is the final post in a five-part series. You can see Part One here; Part Two here; Part Three here, and Part Four here.) The new question-of-the-week is: How do you get students to want to ...