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 ...

Shaping Peer Writing Feedback in a Virtual World Amid a shifting university landscape, where hybrid and online courses are growing as common as omelette bars and smartboards, creating virtual spaces ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. When Yi Wei was a young child, she would write down snippets of English conversations and phrases she heard while watching television ...

Does thinking about spending hours grading student writing fill you with dread? It doesn’t have to! Writing is an essential activity for developing higher order thinking ability such as critical ...

The shift online provides new ways to harness the power of peer feedback to improve writing skills, say Sherry Wynn Perdue, Pam Bromley, Mark Limbach and Jonathan Olshock The art of writing, invented ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. I’m trying to understand where the notion that constantly monitoring students and subjecting them ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are the best ways to give students feedback on their writing? Teaching writing—and learning how to write—are not easy tasks for teachers or students. Educators ...

This is a somewhat uncomfortable thing to admit, but for a good chunk of my teaching career, most of the feedback I gave students on their writing was not meaningful. How do I know this? Well, in many ...

“Writing is the hardest work that doesn’t involve a pick ax,” my first college writing teacher told me. As much as I hear from people about their difficulties in facing the blank screen (or the blank ...

The art of writing, invented roughly 5,000 years ago, represents a blip in human history. It’s younger than agriculture, music, and construction. And as recently as the Revolutionary War, a majority ...