With the popularity of the new end-of-course (EOC) exams, colleges and high schools expected improved writing skills of students at all grade levels. Critics complained the previous TAKS exam taught ...

Whether you’re communicating professionally or personally, understanding the difference between formal and informal letters is essential for effective writing. Letters are often a crucial part of ...

It's nothing to LOL about: Despite best efforts to keep school writing assignments formal, two-thirds of teens admit in a survey that emoticons and other informal styles have crept in. The Pew ...

AP and NWP teachers participating in the survey report giving students written assignments ranging from research papers to short responses, journaling, and creative writing. The type and frequency of ...

From Shakespeare essays to lab reports, writing is relevant to every area of academic study. The Writing Center is hosting a series of workshops to help students across academic disciplines strengthen ...

For all the hype Millennials get, nearly every K-12 student today is part of its successor generation—Gen Z—a group more plugged in and social than ever before. The internet is awash in surveys ...

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 ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do we teach ELLs formal language and how to write argument essays for the CCSS? The number of English Language Learners in our schools is growing and, at the ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The Problem: Undergraduates are arriving to school with little writing experience, which makes their ...