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

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For Matthew Pavesich, writing isn't something you learn how to do once and then you're done. Writing is something you learn, and then you learn some more, and then you learn even more, throughout your ...

If students understand that there are four types of standard writing essays to choose from, it could increase their interest in classroom writing assignments. The first type is a narrative. It tells ...

Over the course of a long career, I have been a classroom teacher, a reading specialist, a head of an independent school for learning and language disabled students, and a superintendent of a public ...

Colloquy Live: Read the transcript of a live, online discussion with Nancy Sommers, director of expository writing at Harvard University, on why students write poorly, and what colleges can do about ...