In Geology and Environmental Earth Science, students use informal writing (like observational notes, data plots, diagrams, etc.)to generate ideas and do the work of science. Scientists rely on many ...

These are tough times for grammar snobs, those would-be avatars of flawless spelling and proper syntax who need look no further than a high-school friend’s Facebook posts or a family member’s text ...

A survey of 2,462 Advanced Placement (AP) and National Writing Project (NWP) teachers finds that digital technologies are shaping student writing in myriad ways and have also become helpful tools for ...

The UWC encourages the RIT community to engage with it in the practice, teaching, and study of writing. Let us know how students in your classes and programs learn to write for academic and ...

Writing happens in every classroom and for a range of instructional purposes. When writing is used as a mechanism for processing learning, metacognition, self-reflection, and problem-solving, this is ...

Writing Intensive (WI) courses embrace the responsibility to prepare students for the writing tasks they will encounter as their intellectual careers at Smith unfold. Accordingly, first-year students ...

Writing Across the Curriculum (or WAC) is a pedagogical movement that has flourished at colleges and universities across the US for more than 40 years. Throughout its history, WAC has shown that ...

The new question-of-the-week is: In what ways can reading support writing instruction? In Part One, Michelle Shory, Ed.S., Irina V. McGrath, Ph.D., Laura Robb, Lindsey Moses, and Laverne Bowers shared ...

The Advanced Writing requirement is part of the Miami Plan. The goal of the requirement is to provide students with writing instruction, practice, and feedback that will serve as a foundation for the ...

Teachers say digital tools affect students’ writing in significant ways, including broadening the audience for their writing and encouraging collaboration Also on the plus side, these middle and high ...