Creativity is fundamental to the teaching of writing. Although WR 153 focuses specifically on creativity and innovation, all WR courses ask students to approach their reading, viewing, writing, and ...

Of all the skills I teach my high school students, I’ve always thought writing was the most important — essential to their future academic success, useful in any profession. I’m no longer so sure.

Great teachers know how to improve myriad aspects of student writing: idea generation, organization, evidence marshaling, diction, grammar, and more. But even with tools and techniques in each of ...

Metacognition is an essential part of writing instruction: with a metacognitive focus, we help students activate their prior knowledge; practice and apply new strategies for the writing and research ...

The Drexel Guide to Team Teaching is intended for instructors interested in developing successful, productive, and joyous team teaching partnerships, whether they are teaching together for the first ...

Common Core Standards—adopted by 45 states—is supposed to bring back writing in schools. Ironically, a writing revolution in schools happened 37 years ago when an eloquent professor named Donald ...