This is going to sound strange coming from someone who spent his career teaching writing and now spends his time trying to help others teach writing better, but it is entirely possible that, with the ...

Does thinking about spending hours grading student writing fill you with dread? It doesn’t have to! Writing is an essential activity for developing higher order thinking ability such as critical ...

The results, published in the journal Assessing Writing, confirmed her suspicions. She found that high-scoring essays shared features related more to the ability to express complex meaning, such as ...

Every semester, Howe Writing Across the Curriculum (HWAC) hosts our innovative Faculty Writing Fellows Program. The Program supports teams of faculty in their efforts to teach students to write more ...

Matt Gomes teaches courses in the professional writing program, including Introduction to Writing Studies, Teaching Writing, Professional Writing, Technical Communication, Writing for Social Change, ...

A while back I asked a highly accomplished colleague, "How do you know when your writing is good enough to make it public?" With her masterful efficiency and confidence she responded, "Great question, ...