A Cornell University instructor has students use typewriters as part of an assignment as her way of battling the encroachment ...
Writing is a valuable educational tool for learning. In the classroom, writing can help students grapple with and understand content more deeply and help students learn disciplinary ways of knowing ...
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 ...
When most teachers introduce a new writing project, students usually respond with groans, moans, or a sudden stomachache that needs an immediate trip to the nurse’s office. It is critical to ...
A significant portion of a student’s time in college is lost researching assignments in the library or over the internet. While the valuable time could be spent on more financially productive ...