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 ...

Modern students constantly face many challenges in the form of complex topics, deadlines, and high requirements for assignments. Under stress and pressure against the background of responsibility for ...

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 ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Professors sometimes bemoan their students' writing skills. But how good are professors at creating ...

AP and NWP teachers participating in the survey report giving students written assignments ranging from research papers to short responses, journaling, and creative writing. The type and frequency of ...

How do you cope with the challenging college assignments? What if you do not have enough time for the project completion? There is a plethora of everyday issues students face that prevent them from ...

This is the writing exercise you will complete in Paper 1 of the final exam. It carries 20 marks. Directed Writing will be based on the two contexts not covered by the Reading and the Listening papers ...