In my introduction to writing I somehow spontaneously said, "You can probably write an essay with two thumbs on your smartphone," and this remark was very well-received by my students, friendly smiles ...

Even the old-fashioned “book report” is superior to the 5-paragraph essay as a tool for developing writers and writing, as it embraces audience and purpose, i.e., tell someone about the book you just ...

Flex your writing muscles with these workouts, including the seated poor-posture press, the blinking-cursor warrior pose, paper crunches, and more.

With the typewriter poetry mentorship in mind, I shared some writing exercises to help get the creative inspiration flowing.

Read: The college essay is dead School, however, does not often train students to exercise this mode of imagination through writing.

This essay, which was added to the SAT in 2005, counts for approximately 30 percent of a test-taker’s score on the writing section, or nearly one-ninth of one’s total score.

Peter Elbow, an English professor whose struggles with writer’s block led him to create a new way of teaching freshman composition that emphasized free-writing exercises, personal reflection and ...

In my intermediate fiction writing class, we did a writing exercise where we were supposed to write a scene, but restrict ourselves by pretending phones, Internet and other technology did not ...