What advice can you give to help teachers be more effective in helping students become better writers? This series is a companion to last year’s five posts on Helping Our Students Become Better ...

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 ...

A little while back, we wrote an essay arguing against killing off the undergraduate essay. The piece generated a lot of reaction, much of it focused on the question of what an essay should be. Some ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do we teach ELLs formal language and how to write argument essays for the CCSS? The number of English Language Learners in our schools is growing and, at the ...

Rachel Toor’s November column, “The Habits of Highly Productive Writers,” clearly resonated with Chronicle readers, as it was one of the most popular articles on the site for several weeks. It’s easy ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

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 ...

Writing essays is an important skill needed to succeed academically in Canadian colleges. Any student who wants to get good grades needs to learn the art of essay writing. Colleges in Canada require ...

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 ...