There is no doubt that writing is an absolutely essential skill to successfully pass through the college and perhaps through our entire lives. Nevertheless, a recent National Assessment of Educational ...

Travis Grandy is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Find him on Twitter @travisgrandy or at his website. I work with a lot of instructors who use ...

The first thing that you must do for writing an assignment is to start early. You should start thinking about what you are going to do right after the assignmentis assigned to you. In that way, you ...

If your assignments require students to find, evaluate or use information sources of any kind, the cadence of the following instructions might feel familiar. “Write a five-page paper and use three ...

Introduction For today’s global student community, academic integrity is one of the most important principles shaping higher ...

Teachers often worry about the advantages and disadvantages of providing students with a rubric for writing assignments. After all, providing a checklist rubric can result in students who write to ...