At the end of every semester, I extract critiques of my composition classes from my students, usually while I am plying them with a homemade cake. With extreme clarity, they tell me that they are ...
FIU’s Center of Excellence in Writing has earned international recognition for a publication, written in English and Spanish, ...
Participation in a local writing contest is the confidence catalyst some sixth-graders needed to push their creativity and consider writing for their futures. In front of a standing-room-only crowd, ...
Imagine this: you publish a blog post that you’ve worked for a full week on. You wrote it, re-wrote it, edited it, and fine-tuned it and now you’re ready to share it with the world. Naturally, you ...
Charles Dickens was paid by the word. This was junior high, we were reading A Tale of Two Cities, and this fact, when it was first uttered, raced like a rumor through the classroom, overtaking ...
The new question-of-the-week is: In what ways can writing support reading instruction? In Part One, Tony Zani, Mary Tedrow, Mary Beth Nicklaus, Colleen Cruz, and Pam Allyn shared their responses. You ...