The Writing Resource Center (WRC) is a community of practice where students can come together to develop their writing skills and work on the shared craft of writing. Writing is a craft that can be ...

Lots of practice and word processing software can make students better writers, but pounding grammar rules and diagramming sentences could actually make them worse Those are the lessons from the ...

Creative writing is a unique beast among writers. You can get swept away writing out every detail of a room, or stuff your stories with characters and too many plot twists. If you want to refine your ...

Editor and writer Erika Dreifus has posted an interview with me that was originally in her monthly e-newsletter, The Practicing Writer, a go-to place for finding all kinds of opportunities and ...

A group of students begins an in-class writing test. According to new data analysis, half of U.S. eighth graders have difficulty with long-form writing on tests and classwork that involves reading.

Writing is a much-prized skill and a difficult one to master and, while some are naturally gifted in stringing sentences together, we all need to take the time to learn the craft. Whether you want to ...

Often, as a teacher, I’ll ask my students to get out a piece of paper and start to write. I’ll usually give them a word or a prompt at the beginning, but after that I’ll encourage them to just keep ...

A person writes in a notebook. The University of Connecticut has introduced a new minor in writing open to undergraduate students. Photo by picjumbo.com/Pexels The ...