Students have the right to understand the environmental impact of any writing and communication tool that they use or are asked to use. There is so much more I could say about all of these points, and ...

When Jocelyn Leitzinger had her university students write about times in their lives they had witnessed discrimination, she ...

How to get your students to love language and take pleasure in writing. Hamlet isn’t the only one to dismiss written compositions as simply “Words, words, words,” without any larger significance or ...

Anabel Gonzalez, Sarah Woodard, Kim Jaxon, Ralph Fletcher, Mary Beth Nicklaus, and Leah Wilson begin a four-part series on providing feedback on student writing.

The Internet has ruined high-school writing. Write the line on the board five hundred times like Bart Simpson. Remember and internalize it. Intone it in an Andy Rooney-esque grumble. I've heard ...

Writing argument resonates with every empowering ideal that brings teachers to the profession in the first place—to teach students that learning matters and that their voices matter.

3-2-1s: Micro-writing doesn’t have to focus on sentences and paragraphs. Lists are great tools to help students summarize, analyze and evaluate information on the fly. As a warm-up, my class recently ...