College life for Bowdoin students involves a lot of writing, from class papers to texting. But outside of the English Department's creative writing classes, there is often not a lot of time or impetus ...

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 ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed college writing. As paper drafts are increasingly co-written with AI, professors are left wondering not whether students are using AI, but how.

This is going to sound strange coming from someone who spent his career teaching writing and now spends his time trying to help others teach writing better, but it is entirely possible that, with the ...

As a high school history teacher, I’m committed to helping my students improve their writing. But, like many of us, I struggle to find time to provide meaningful, timely feedback and assessment. A few ...

Great teachers know how to improve myriad aspects of student writing: idea generation, organization, evidence marshaling, diction, grammar, and more. But even with tools and techniques in each of ...

Researchers from Georgia Tech and Stanford have developed DraftMarks, an open-source tool that visually maps AI's involvement in student writing. Instead of detecting AI in final drafts, it shows ...

The Howe Writing Center (HWC), along with the Howe Center for Writing Excellence (HCWE) we are part of, is committed to using our resources and expertise to help undergraduate, graduate student and ...