Business people and schoolteachers build their vocations around words. But at some colleges, it is possible to earn a four-year undergraduate degree in business or education without ever doing much ...

Teachers often worry about the advantages and disadvantages of providing students with a rubric for writing assignments. After all, providing a checklist rubric can result in students who write to ...

The students’ assignment: Write an op-ed about lead poisoning in Lewiston-Auburn. Or write a caption for a photo, or text about a campus tree. Write about how strange quantum theory is, or write a ...

AP and NWP teachers participating in the survey report giving students written assignments ranging from research papers to short responses, journaling, and creative writing. The type and frequency of ...

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 ...

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Writing assignments can feel overwhelming for many African students. Heavy course loads, unreliable internet, part-time jobs, crowded study spaces, and strict academic expectations often make writing ...

This brief case study was written by Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda, Ronald E. Bulanda, J. Scott Brown, Aaron Abbott, & Rena Perez. Educators often incorporate extensive writing into their coursework to ...

Artificial intelligence has exploded in popularity over the last few years, in large part due to AI chatbots like ChatGPT. As AI evolves, it's become easy for professionals to whip up emails or ...

(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 ...