Peering over my laptop, I see a few dozen nonfiction books lining the edge of my desk. Disparate in quality and content, they all have one thing in common: They want me to learn something. As an ...

Rachel Toor’s November column, “The Habits of Highly Productive Writers,” clearly resonated with Chronicle readers, as it was one of the most popular articles on the site for several weeks. It’s easy ...

In a world of dwindling reviews, the author Lydia Davis’s new work charts a more serendipitous path to reading.

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 recent meta-analysis examined 59 studies of spelling interventions for students who had, or were at risk for, learning ...

Most of my faculty colleagues agree that Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), in which the task of teaching writing is one assigned to all professors, not just those who teach English or composition, ...

While the reading and math “wars” have gotten a lot of attention in education in recent years, writing instruction has not received that same focus. That is, until the release of ChatGPT last year.

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do we teach ELLs formal language and how to write argument essays for the CCSS? The number of English Language Learners in our schools is growing and, at the ...

The internet has changed writing forever. Have you ever thought of your students alongside Hemingway, Shakespeare, and other well-known writers? They are actually: All their messages, blogs, and ...

I’ve been a teacher in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Writing Program for the past 14 years. A few weeks ago, while driving from a department meeting to teach a class, I received a text from the program ...

Spoiler alert: there's nothing in there. There’s even a technological counterattack, as companies roll out technology designed to detect software-composed writing. But the bottom line is that ChatGPT ...