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 ...

New teachers in particular may benefit from trying this four-part framework for guiding students to improve their writing.

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 ...

This week I challenged my editor to face off against a machine. Barbara Kantrowitz gamely accepted, under one condition: “You have to file early.” Ever since ChatGPT arrived in 2022, many journalists ...

I’m trying to understand where the notion that constantly monitoring students and subjecting them to real-time feedback is a benefit to learning came from, because I gotta[1] tell you, from my ...

Ask students to take notes on their own drafts as they listen (Edgington, 2020) “Analysis of the literature revealed that students preferred this form of feedback over text-based feedback. Students ...

This is a somewhat uncomfortable thing to admit, but for a good chunk of my teaching career, most of the feedback I gave students on their writing was not meaningful. How do I know this? Well, in many ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are the best ways to give students feedback on their writing? Teaching writing—and learning how to write—are not easy tasks for teachers or students. Educators ...

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 ...