Educators have long reported struggles to keep up with the paperwork associated with IEPs. Now, they say AI platforms can ...

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 ...

Note: In the “Are You Working?” series, a Ph.D. and academic-writing coach answers questions from faculty members and graduate students about scholarly motivation and productivity. This month’s ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Teaching is hectic. The combination of precision work and chaos theory can make the school year feel like an attempt to knit a sweater while riding a Tilt-A-Whirl. Most of us collapse on the couch at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let’s face it: no one likes grading student essays, because student essays, in general, aren’t very good. When you’re halfway through a pile of essays that seem rote and devoid of thought, it’s easy ...

IN THE course of more than forty years of teaching I have often been asked, “When you teach creative writing, what do you teach?” Books dealing with technique have their function, no doubt, in a ...