Writing is a skill, but it isn’t only a skill. Unfortunately, for a good portion of my early teaching career, I treated learning to write like a largely contextless activity, a skill that could be ...

Teaching students to write is no easy feat, and it’s a topic that has often been discussed on this blog. Penny Kittle teaches first-year writers at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She was ...

Late at night, a student sits at her desk while the soft glow of a laptop screen casts shadows across the room. Outside, the city street is quiet, but inside, her mind is racing. Fingers hover over ...