Teaching Writing is designed for K-12 teachers, paraprofessionals, instructional coaches, and other school-based educators. Building on the research of Professor Emerita Maria Brisk, the workshop ...

Science writing is integral to the work of scientists and to learning to do science. Science texts composed by emergent and beginning writers in Family Message Journals provide insights related to ...

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Writing recently at The Washington Post, Jeffrey Selingo adds another example to the “Why can’t students write?” genre, a genre, on which I’ve weighed in a time or two myself.[1] The complaints about ...

When I started a new career as a high school English-as-a-second-language teacher in 2011, I figured I was better equipped than many teachers to help students learn to write. I had been a journalist ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: What is the biggest mistake teachers make in writing instruction, and what should they do instead? We teachers make lots of mistakes in writing instruction. Just ...

Mark Sidebottom, assistant professor of mechanical and manufacturing engineering, thinks technical writing is critical for engineers to do effectively. “It's something that I've used a lot in my ...