Last October I met the author Lauren Groff at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville. I wanted a chance to hear from the author of a favorite book, Arcadia, and I wanted an autograph for my copy ...

One of the key learning outcomes of university education in general, and liberal arts programmes, in particular, is that students acquire proficiency in writing across genres and disciplines. Further, ...

Matthew Johnson is an English teacher from Ann Arbor, Mich., and the author of Flash Feedback: Responding to Student Writing Better and Faster – Without Burning Out (published by Corwin Press). His ...

With frequent modeling, teachers can guide their students to work through the writing process with confidence.

Teaching students how to write disciplinarily is a difficult task, especially when that way of writing includes writing together in teams. Team writing is a challenge many faculty across campus have ...

Early in our careers, when we were fresh-faced and idealistic (we still are!) the prepackaged curriculum and the advice of more experienced colleagues was the go-to resource. Largely, we were advised ...

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of generating polished, grammatically correct text that meets academic standards, educators face a critical challenge: How can we teach students ...

At Smith, we believe writing is a crucial tool in all disciplines and that, as experts in their field, faculty are ideally positioned to teach it across the curriculum. Teaching students how to convey ...

M y students can’t write a clear sentence to save their lives. It’s my job to help them change that. I have taught writing for 10 years. Much like Joseph R. Teller, whose October essay criticizing how ...

In the New York Times obituary of Peter Elbow, the giant of composition studies, he is said to have “transformed freshman comp,” which he definitely did, but also, maybe not? Even as someone who has ...