Having students move beyond descriptive paragraphs and five-paragraph essays can help improve their ability to write—and their love of doing it.

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 ...

A recent study by researchers at Vanderbilt University finds that formative assessment—that is, ongoing, classroom-based assessment done by the teacher—can help improve students’ writing. Examples of ...

The new questions-of-the-week is: How do you get students to want to revise their writing? Getting students to revise their writing can be a challenge. Often, they have a “one-and-done” perspective.

A four-step process teaches students how to use GenAI tools to brainstorm ideas, understand and act on feedback and edit ...

Want to inspire your students to write? Here's an opportunity to write about something meaningful and for an audience beyond the classroom. The YES! National Student Writing Competition is an ...

At a recent conference on teaching in higher education, I attended a session on ChatGPT. The session organizers, a team from the University of Central Florida, began by asking us to position ourselves ...