In the era of high-stakes testing, teachers break conventional revision rules by insisting that children conceive, draft, and publish a piece of writing in one sitting. This philosophy necessitates ...

You’ve surely noticed how your class gets engaged as soon as you introduce a game into the teaching process. The students get competitive, but that’s a healthy competition you want to nurture. Have ...

An analysis of policy documents from 116 R1 U.S. universities found that 63% of these institutions encourage the use of ...

Spoiler alert: there's nothing in there. There’s even a technological counterattack, as companies roll out technology designed to detect software-composed writing. But the bottom line is that ChatGPT ...

The next-level artificial intelligence capabilities of ChatGPT, a chat bot released in late November by the research company OpenAI, have inspired many predictions, both drastic and ecstatic, for the ...

At Smith, we believe writing is a crucial tool in all disciplines and that, as experts in their field, faculty are ideally positioned to teach it across the curriculum. Teaching students how to convey ...

At the Jacobson Center, we believe that all students, at all levels of expertise, can improve their writing and learning skills. To that end, we offer writing services and resources, public speaking ...

Yannick Thoraval is a member of the National Tertiary Education Union. Yannick Thoraval and Jill Parris also worked together on the project, Home Truths: An Anthology of Refugee and Migrant Writing.

A recent New Yorker article entitled “Groupthink ” takes a fascinating look at the concept of brainstorming. According to author Jonah Lehrer, brainstorming was introduced in the late 1940s as a ...

This was an eighth-grade student’s response to a question I posed in a reading response assignment tied to the play, “The Diary of Anne Frank.” The question asked was: “Why does Anne hide Peter’s ...