Academic life is often described as a time of growth, discovery, and opportunity. For many students, however, it is also a period marked by intense pressure, constant deadlines, and high expectations.

A writing lesson came to life for students in Mary Greene’s 6th grade Writing Studio class at Hillside Elementary School in ...

Lindsay Hamm, lecturer, in the Department of Sociology, uses writing and automated peer review as a “Swiss Army knife” to engage students and improve learning in all her courses, from a 30-person ...

Experts tend to complete writing tasks more quickly than novices by combining or skipping steps due to years of practice and mastery. Our students often come to us as novices who are still learning ...

When students are allowed to redo assignments the benefits can include a deeper understanding of the content, increased ...

Dan Melzer, associate director of first-year composition at the University of California, Davis, shook up the research on teaching college-level writing in 2014 with his book Assignments Across the ...

(This is the third post in a five-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) In Part Two, Matthew Johnson, Emily Phillips Galloway, Robert Jiménez, Holland White, Joy Hamm, and ...

Effective course design begins with understanding the process of thinking and learning. These processes are commonly termed "metacognition." Metacognition includes a critical awareness of one’s ...

As AI cements itself firmly into classrooms, one large and lingering question concerns when and how students can use it appropriately. It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative ...

Writing is a valuable educational tool for learning. In the classroom, writing can help students grapple with and understand content more deeply and help students learn disciplinary ways of knowing ...

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in ...