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 ...

The Writing Center's consultants strive to help students understand and engage with writing assignments in productive ways. Unfortunately, we sometimes encounter assignment sheets that are difficult ...

Travis Grandy is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Find him on Twitter @travisgrandy or at his website. I work with a lot of instructors who use ...

Journals have become a popular format in recent years for courses that require some writing. In-class journal entries can spark discussions and reveal gaps in students' understanding of the material.

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 ...

Artificial intelligence literally is in the palm of students’ hands through tools including ChatGPT. Deke Farrow [email protected] To try to curb students’ misuse of AI tools like ChatGPT, teachers ...

Rachel is a freelancer based in Echo Park, Los Angeles and has been writing and producing content for nearly two decades on subjects ranging from tech to fashion, health and lifestyle to entertainment ...

A college student's psychology essay has prompted an online culture war, after she was failed for seemingly quoting from the ...

OU placed a graduate instructor on administrative leave after a student alleged religious discrimination over a failed ...

The dispute between a psychology student and her instructor uses a tried-and-true conservative recipe to stoke controversy: ...