American writing instruction has always involved some level of torture. What happens when technology makes it easy?

What do our reading choices say about us? When teaching creative writing and literature classes, I always ask my students about their favourite genres and current reading in the first week. It is a ...

With frequent modeling, teachers can guide their students to work through the writing process with confidence.

The 15th edition of The Best Australian Science Writing, edited by Zoe Kean and Tegan Taylor, contains 39 essays and stories that “tell tales of the universe that scientists have worked hard to reveal ...

Composing by hand, without Google or a blinking cursor, reveals the seams of writing — and the surprising benefits of slowing ...

"I was lucky enough to have two inspiring mentors who recognized that I had more to offer than what was reflected by my standardized test scores," writes Debra Curtis ...

The best books on writing tend to be well, if not beautifully, written. But I have found that great books about writing great fiction — such as those by Eudora Welty and E Lily Yu — often contain ...

Having students move beyond descriptive paragraphs and five-paragraph essays can help improve their ability to write—and their love of doing it.

Gurira and Coogler worked together on the “Black Panther” series, where she plays the general Okoye. Danai Gurira wrote a ...

The 43rd president of the United States launched a Substack site Feb. 16 with a 1,500-word tribute to a predecessor.

It started with a daydream as Aylis Manley drifted off in science class and found herself in the kitchen of a generations-old farmhouse.

On any given afternoon, in classrooms across Uganda and beyond, literature teachers are confronting a quiet but profound ...