YES! Magazine

“Standing Up for Our Neighbors” Student Writing Lesson

Are you willing and brave enough to stand up against injustice? Describe what you would do, and how your actions might make a difference. Students will read and respond to Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz’s ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

What Critics of Student Writing Get Wrong

It’s easy to lament student writing abilities. Alarmist complaints can be regularly read in The Chronicle, popular journalism, and books. It’s easy for teachers to take their frustration with a few ...
Inside Higher Ed

Rethinking Responding to Student Writing

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 ...
YES! Magazine

“Honoring Your Roots” Student Writing Lesson

How do you honor your roots and identity? How connected are you to all of these parts? Students will read and respond to the YES! article “Native and European–How do I Honor All Parts of Myself?” by ...
Pew Research Center

The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing and How Writing is Taught in Schools

Teachers say digital tools affect students’ writing in significant ways, including broadening the audience for their writing and encouraging collaboration Also on the plus side, these middle and high ...
KQED

Automated Writing Feedback Programs Help Teachers Coach Students How to Write

As a high school history teacher, I’m committed to helping my students improve their writing. But, like many of us, I struggle to find time to provide meaningful, timely feedback and assessment. A few ...
Education Week

Writing in Google Docs Doesn’t Affect Student Test Scores, Early Research Finds

Students willingly embrace Google Docs as a new tool for writing, and the free online word-processing tool encourages them to make extensive edits and revisions. But enthusiastic usage of Google Docs ...
Inside Higher Ed

Grading Student Writing Takes So Much Time (For Me Anyway)

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. This past weekend, I graded a round of essays in my first-year writing course. With three sections of ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Student Spotlight: Writing Commons consultant helps other students improve writing skills

Claudia Alant, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student from Niskayuna, N.Y., has worked for the Writing Commons for five semesters. Since she was in high school, Alant has participated in ...
WBUR

Why we stopped grading our students on their writing

In our many years as college writing instructors, we’ve graded thousands of student essays. This year, motivated by students' trauma during the pandemic, we stopped. Don’t get us wrong: We still ...
Pew Research Center

The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing and How Writing is Taught in Schools

A survey of 2,462 Advanced Placement (AP) and National Writing Project (NWP) teachers finds that digital technologies are shaping student writing in myriad ways and have also become helpful tools for ...