Constructing an assignment that elicits good writing may be as difficult for teachers as writing the essays is for students, a forthcoming study suggests. Teachers must strike a delicate balance ...

There is no doubt that writing is an absolutely essential skill to successfully pass through the college and perhaps through our entire lives. Nevertheless, a recent National Assessment of Educational ...

The students’ assignment: Write an op-ed about lead poisoning in Lewiston-Auburn. Or write a caption for a photo, or text about a campus tree. Write about how strange quantum theory is, or write a ...

A lot of academics were in the midst of devising policies and testing pedagogical responses to ChatGPT — the chatbot released in November that generates plausible-sounding, original text at a user’s ...

Travis Grandy is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Find him on Twitter @travisgrandy or at his website. I work with a lot of instructors who use ...

Artificial intelligence has exploded in popularity over the last few years, in large part due to AI chatbots like ChatGPT. As AI evolves, it's become easy for professionals to whip up emails or ...

About two years ago at my university, I designed a minor in the medical humanities. At its core was a class that introduced students to medical topics from the perspectives of the humanities and ...

Lecturer in Student Learning and Communication Development, University of Sydney University life comes with its share of challenges. One of these is writing longer assignments that require higher ...

In the competitive academic environment faced by students in the UK and beyond, improving one's grades is more than a desire; it's a necessity. The journey from average (C) to excellent (A) isn't as ...