I remember spending hours commenting painstakingly on my students’ papers when I was a graduate student teaching in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. My students loved our classes ...

Two recent experiments highlight aspects of writing instruction that are rarely studied—or taught. Recent research suggests that secondary students can benefit significantly from learning how to ...

Writing is hard, and writing at length is harder. But there are no studies on whether it's better to teach students to write sentences before asking them to write at length. There isn’t much good ...