Constructing an assignment that elicits good writing may be as difficult for teachers as writing the essays is for students, a forthcoming study suggests. Teachers must strike a delicate balance ...
Travis Grandy is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Find him on Twitter @travisgrandy or at his website. I work with a lot of instructors who use ...
Effective course design begins with understanding the process of thinking and learning. These processes are commonly termed "metacognition." Metacognition includes a critical awareness of one’s ...
Brady Krien is a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at the University of Iowa where he teaches in the Department of Rhetoric. You can find him on Twitter at @BradyKrien. Regardless of your ...
In the pandemic, with classes online, teams working remotely, and conference rooms empty, managing group work (and writing with a group) is a challenge across industries. I’ve been taking on this ...
(This is the third post in a five-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) In Part Two, Matthew Johnson, Emily Phillips Galloway, Robert Jiménez, Holland White, Joy Hamm, and ...
Picture yourself looking at a blank screen, trying to write your dissertation while the deadline gets closer. In the UK, research papers and dissertations are important parts of your degree, and they ...
The Undergraduate GWAR is a CSU-wide requirement that should be completed by undergraduate students in their junior year. All undergraduate students must satisfy the Graduation Writing Assessment ...