Having students move beyond descriptive paragraphs and five-paragraph essays can help improve their ability to write—and ...

I've recently accepted the fact that I am, and always will be, a pen-and-paper kind of gal. When it comes to writing, nothing does it for me quite like the act of scrawling by hand. I’m more creative, ...

Of all the pearls of wisdom I’ve picked up over the years, among the most valuable consists of just three words: intuition is bias. The Romantic poets may have believed that intuition offers special ...

Note: In the “Are You Working?” series, a Ph.D. and academic-writing coach answers questions from faculty members and graduate students about scholarly motivation and productivity. This month’s ...

One of the challenges of writing is...writing. Here are some tips that I've found most useful for myself, for actually getting words onto the page: 1. Write something every work-day, and preferably, ...