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 ...

A controversial writing assignment that asked eighth-graders in Rialto to consider sources that contend the Holocaust never happened is a “bad mark on our record” that will be fixed, a spokeswoman for ...

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 ...

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 ...

An assignment refers to transferring rights or property. Learn how assignments work in options contracts and see examples of assignments in mortgages, wages, and leases.

Effective course design begins with understanding the process of thinking and learning. These processes are commonly termed "metacognition." Metacognition includes a critical awareness of one’s ...

The University Writing Program works with Drexel faculty and programs to develop writing assignments, learning experiences, and goals that enrich student outcomes. In addition, we administer the ...

Experts tend to complete writing tasks more quickly than novices by combining or skipping steps due to years of practice and mastery. Our students often come to us as novices who are still learning ...

The students’ assignment: Write an op-ed about lead poisoning in Lewiston-Auburn. Or write a caption for a photo, or text about a campus tree. Write about how strange quantum theory is, or write a ...

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