Does thinking about spending hours grading student writing fill you with dread? It doesn’t have to! Writing is an essential activity for developing higher order thinking ability such as critical ...

Shaping Peer Writing Feedback in a Virtual World Amid a shifting university landscape, where hybrid and online courses are growing as common as omelette bars and smartboards, creating virtual spaces ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. When Yi Wei was a young child, she would write down snippets of English conversations and phrases she heard while watching television ...

Shame around writing ability can be a real problem for new students, so let’s make sure feedback encourages their development ...

Even before complications wrought by AI, faculty members and students alike have often dreaded college writing assignments—students because of painful past histories with the process and faculty ...

Writing is critical for all students, but many students struggle to develop strong writing skills. New research suggests a technique called performance feedback could be a valuable tool for helping ...

This is a somewhat uncomfortable thing to admit, but for a good chunk of my teaching career, most of the feedback I gave students on their writing was not meaningful. How do I know this? Well, in many ...

Providing feedback to students is one of the most interpersonal activities in any writing course (online or face-to- face), and therefore is one of the most impactful ways to develop your presence in ...

“Writing is the hardest work that doesn’t involve a pick ax,” my first college writing teacher told me. As much as I hear from people about their difficulties in facing the blank screen (or the blank ...

It’s easier than ever to find someone to comment on your work. But whether you participate in an online critique group, meet up in person, post excerpts on Wattpad, or have a writing partner, getting ...

Feedback from faculty of all disciplines, as well as writing center professionals, remains an irreplaceable component of the university writing experience. But if students are only writing, and never ...

Feedback from faculty of all disciplines, as well as writing center professionals, remains an irreplaceable component of the university writing experience. But if students are only writing, and never ...