In Thick, her 2019 essay collection, Tressie McMillan Cottom says she was told that she was “too deep to be popular, too country Black to be literary, and too naïve to show the rigor of my thinking in ...

Pride is an important habit of mind when it comes to writing well. How often do we allow students to experience it? Writing is a skill, but it isn’t only a skill. Unfortunately, for a good portion of ...

If there’s one thing you can be sure of, it’s that English Syntax can definitely get interesting. Syntax is the branch of linguistics that deals with sentences and their structures. In case you’re ...

The real divide in this debate sits between generative literacy and evaluative literacy.