I recently led a faculty writing retreat. During a discussion about sustaining writing momentum, we talked about the power of writers asking readers for feedback if they are stuck. Yet most writers ...

I am in the midst of revising a book about writing, which has me simultaneously thinking about writing in the context of what I’m saying in the book and reflecting on the writing I am doing as the ...

This third entry in an occasional series from Roy Peter Clark, who witnessed the Poynter Institute’s founding, explores its history in honor of its 50th anniversary. It would be hard to estimate how ...

How do educators design tasks in which students construct their own knowledge; conceptually demonstrate their understanding through application, analyzation, or interpretations; and elaborately ...

Writing well takes time. Writing well does not mean just sitting down and beginning to write sentences until you reach the page limit. Starting writing the night before your assignment is due doesn't ...

In Thick, her 2019 essay collection, Tressie McMillan Cottom says she was told that she was “too deep to be popular, too country Black to be literary, and too naïve to show the rigor of my thinking in ...

One of the key learning outcomes of university education in general, and liberal arts programmes, in particular, is that students acquire proficiency in writing across genres and disciplines. Further, ...