When students don’t understand the text of their essay, it’s a sign that they didn’t produce it. As academics and writing coaches we increasingly encounter students who, instead of requiring help with ...

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(This is the final post in a five-part series. You can see Part One here; Part Two here; Part Three here, and Part Four here.) The new question-of-the-week is: How do you get students to want to ...

We need to do a much better job of teaching our students to write effectively. Effective writing is far too important to be left to freshman rhetoric and composition courses or designated writing ...

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 ...

I remember spending hours commenting painstakingly on my students’ papers when I was a graduate student teaching in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. My students loved our classes ...

The new questions-of-the-week is: How do you get students to want to revise their writing? Getting students to revise their writing can be a challenge. Often, they have a “one-and-done” perspective.