Constructing an assignment that elicits good writing may be as difficult for teachers as writing the essays is for students, a forthcoming study suggests. Teachers must strike a delicate balance ...

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Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem story. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the person sitting to his or her immediate right. One of you will then write the ...

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 ...

There are a number of different ways to structure your assignment. Different teachers will recommend different ways. Whichever way you choose your assignment must be written in a report style not an ...

The number of minutes in a school day has not changed since I was in school – a long time ago – but the educational content surely has. We had physical education (PE) every day, and still managed to ...