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 ...

Shame around writing ability can be a real problem for new students, so let’s make sure feedback encourages their development ...

As a high school history teacher, I’m committed to helping my students improve their writing. But, like many of us, I struggle to find time to provide meaningful, timely feedback and assessment. A few ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. When Yi Wei was a young child, she would write down snippets of English conversations and phrases she heard while watching television ...

So. You've written a thing, and now you want to know if that thing is any good. First of all, congratulations! Writing is impossible, and the fact that you've finished/half finished/started a draft of ...

“Writing is labor intensive exercise for both the student and the teacher and requires a lot of one-on-one,” said Wink Swain of Measurement Inc. A 2012 case study agreed: One reason that teachers may ...

Feedback from faculty of all disciplines, as well as writing center professionals, remains an irreplaceable component of the university writing experience. But if students are only writing, and never ...

“Writing is the hardest work that doesn’t involve a pick ax,” my first college writing teacher told me. As much as I hear from people about their difficulties in facing the blank screen (or the blank ...

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