For some students, communicating emotions to others can feel daunting. Fear of judgment or vulnerability may discourage open ...

Late at night, a student sits at her desk while the soft glow of a laptop screen casts shadows across the room. Outside, the city street is quiet, but inside, her mind is racing. Fingers hover over ...

Dan Melzer, associate director of first-year composition at the University of California, Davis, shook up the research on teaching college-level writing in 2014 with his book Assignments Across the ...

Many students are verbally very reflective, but struggle to explore this in writing. This guide suggests a variety of tips you can offer them Reflection is an essential part of social work practice, ...

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 ...

In a recent post, I outlined 9 ways AI-literate students learn with AI, focusing on how students use AI to support thinking, reading, writing, feedback, and reflection. That post traced the practices ...

This year I tried a new writing practice in my 8th grade English class, and it led me to an important realization about writing development. Like many great classroom moments, this one happened by ...

Near the end of 2023, a popular YouTube creator known as hbomberguy released a video on plagiarism — a topic often confined to conversations in composition classrooms. The four-hour video, “Plagiarism ...