Two authors, a professor teaching graduate students in an online class about Basic Writing history, theory, and practice (Laura), and a graduate student tutoring basic writers online (Haley), share ...

Global technology leader Alex Kaplan said it best: “Skills themselves are the currency of the future.” Teaching our youths cursive handwriting may be the key to improving their skill level.

Teaching Writing is designed for K-12 teachers, paraprofessionals, instructional coaches, and other school-based educators. Building on the research of Professor Emerita Maria Brisk, the workshop ...

Sheila R. Alber-Morgan, Terri Hessler, Moira Konrad, Teaching Writing for Keeps, Education and Treatment of Children, Vol. 30, No. 3 (AUGUST 2007), pp. 107-128 ...

New research shows that asking children to copy letters is the most effective approach to promoting early literacy skills.

New resources launched by Australia's Education Research Organisation will arm all teachers with the skills to teach writing.

If this kind of writing can be done by a machine that doesn’t have a single thought in its head, what does that tell us about what we’ve been asking of students.

In the world of college composition, we spend a lot of time talking about how to teach writing — with as many opinions on that as there are instructors — but very little time talking about why ...

At many colleges, professors trained in the discipline of rhetoric and composition are finding that the specialized knowledge they bring to teaching writing is held in thrall to older notions of ...