Last October I met the author Lauren Groff at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville. I wanted a chance to hear from the author of a favorite book, Arcadia, and I wanted an autograph for my copy ...

Freshman year, after dining hall acquaintances have exhausted standard small talk on the weather —“Winter’s coming” —and last Saturday’s happenings —“You will not believe how late I went to bed” ...

It’s tough to get a room full of writers to agree on anything—the best wine, the best Shakespeare play, the best time of day to work. Perhaps the only belief that today’s writers share is that to ...

Matthew Johnson is an English teacher from Ann Arbor, Mich., and the author of Flash Feedback: Responding to Student Writing Better and Faster – Without Burning Out (published by Corwin Press). His ...

Revision implies a “re-seeing” of your text, not just a quick clean up. To effectively revise, or re-see, writers should focus on rhetorical concerns that have significant impact on the text. For ...

In Lessons From A Street-Wise Professor, Ramon Ricker advises college students to take charge of their career: set bold goals and develop a clear plan for achieving them. Take advantage of your unique ...

To revise your writing, you need to see it through the eyes of a reader — a stranger to the text instead of the creator. Here’s one recipe for revising your work. Have you missed a Coffee Break Course ...

Studies have shown that many students are using AI to brainstorm, learn new information and revise their work. krisanapong detraphiphat/Moment via Getty Images I’m a writing professor who sees ...

We know that writing is an important skill. For example, research shows that writing is one of the most highly valued skills by employers (e.g., Hart Research Associates, 2013), it can help our mental ...