The Common Core State Standards and the state assessments designed to measure them are demanding increased critical reading and analytical writing from students, and I’ve noticed a shift from teachers ...

Get feedback on your writing prompts before assigning them to your classes! In summer 2018, the HUB Writing Center implemented the Prompt Feedback Program. This program allows faculty to get feedback ...

Writing remains a shifting fuzzy cloud floating in a wide subjective sky. This week, teachers all over the country have been sharing tales of teaching that most difficult of subjects—writing. They are ...

Write a story in which the narrator refuses to tell the story. Permit the narrator to come close to telling the story—perhaps ...

It was gratifying to read Paul Hanstedt’s January 9 guest blog post in IHE. He succinctly summarizes some of the most important tenets of writing instruction and learning to write: The problem isn’t ...

This page was guest-written by Phil Shaw, Senior Lecturer, University Writing Program, and CTL Faculty Fellow for Student Success in Gateway Courses. Our understanding and use of Generative AI ...

Prompt: You are a relatively new faculty member in the Department of English who specializes in teaching writing. In November 2022, OpenAI releases ChatGPT. Within weeks, star New York Times columnist ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the single most effective instructional strategy you have used to teach writing? Teaching and learning good writing can be a challenge to educators and ...

A lot of academics were in the midst of devising policies and testing pedagogical responses to ChatGPT — the chatbot released in November that generates plausible-sounding, original text at a user’s ...

Writing is more than a skill, and we risk further declines in literacy if we don't teach it. Artificial intelligence has spawned a new creation, ChatGPT, that can produce well written essays in the ...