In the pandemic, with classes online, teams working remotely, and conference rooms empty, managing group work (and writing with a group) is a challenge across industries. I’ve been taking on this ...

Embarking on your first journalism assignment can feel both exciting and intimidating. The blank page stares back at you, full of potential yet demanding structure, accuracy, and engaging content.

Modern students constantly face many challenges in the form of complex topics, deadlines, and high requirements for assignments. Under stress and pressure against the background of responsibility for ...

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 ...

Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt the dread of an upcoming assignment and wished for a clone to take on the task. Hey, we’ve all been there! But the truth is, even without a partner, you can ...

Experts tend to complete writing tasks more quickly than novices by combining or skipping steps due to years of practice and mastery. Our students often come to us as novices who are still learning ...

Much research suggests that more writing is associated with more learning, and that’s given more credence to the Writing Across the Curriculum movement, which promotes the importance of writing ...

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 ...