Of all the pearls of wisdom I’ve picked up over the years, among the most valuable consists of just three words: intuition is bias. The Romantic poets may have believed that intuition offers special ...

The bestselling author has written 212 books and counting, but she cares deeply about serving her readers well, each and every time Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

The most formidable deadline I ever faced was in seventh grade. The end of the semester was approaching, and I suddenly realized I had five book reports due the next day. They were supposed to have ...

Your research team is full of experts with different skills to contribute to the co-writing process. This is far from “just writing”—synthesizing the literature, delineating the methods, and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this article, we provide an overview of writing development from a product perspective and from a process perspective. Then we discuss ...

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 ...

Academics in nearly every college or university setting write as part of their careers, and yet few faculty members identify as writers. There are real ramifications to this paradox. Importantly, the ...

Matthew Johnson is an English teacher from Ann Arbor, Mich., and the author of Flash Feedback: Responding to Student Writing Better and Faster – Without Burning Out (published by Corwin Press). His ...

Until quite recently research on composition and the classroom practices that it influenced focused on the written products that students composed. Reseachers and writing teachers, realizing that this ...

On Twitter, John Pavlus recently asked me which bit of the writing process I like most – researching and collating information, or actually getting it down on paper. So to answer that question more ...