The landscape of student learning is seldom static, but over the past few years, the ground beneath academic writing has ...

(This is the final post in a five-part series. You can see Part One here; Part Two here; Part Three here, and Part Four here.) The new question-of-the-week is: How do you get students to want to ...

Last winter, Reny Diaz ’08 described a typical day at Yale. “Anyways, I’ve spent the day marveling at the amount of fellowships and internships available through Yale’s Office of International ...

Last semester, when I initially decided to share my work, my students were working on the visual composition unit in which they could either make a comic or a photo essay, accompanied by an ...

I remember spending hours commenting painstakingly on my students’ papers when I was a graduate student teaching in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. My students loved our classes ...

Writing is a skill, but it isn’t only a skill. Unfortunately, for a good portion of my early teaching career, I treated learning to write like a largely contextless activity, a skill that could be ...

In the well-intentioned effort to help college writers find strong theses, we as instructors can put the cart before the horse. Let me explain. I was reminded of this problem a couple of weeks ago ...

Many professors in the humanities are giving up on assigning papers. Working against the tsunami of AI writing is exhausting and disheartening. Those with heavy course loads can’t do it anymore. But ...

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The new questions-of-the-week is: How do you get students to want to revise their writing? Getting students to revise their writing can be a challenge. Often, they have a “one-and-done” perspective.