When you teach writing, as I do, you tend to receive a lot of unsolicited advice from all over campus about how to do your job. I imagine that this is at least in part because all of us, in one ...

Writing recently at The Washington Post, Jeffrey Selingo adds another example to the “Why can’t students write?” genre, a genre, on which I’ve weighed in a time or two myself.[1] The complaints about ...

Spoiler alert: there's nothing in there. There’s even a technological counterattack, as companies roll out technology designed to detect software-composed writing. But the bottom line is that ChatGPT ...

Route 66, America’s most celebrated highway, is something altogether different today. It is no longer “the best” way to get from Chicago to the West Coast. In many places, the historic road is buried ...

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Great teachers know how to improve myriad aspects of student writing: idea generation, organization, evidence marshaling, diction, grammar, and more. But even with tools and techniques in each of ...

Like many creative-writing instructors, for most of my teaching career I’ve led classes based on the workshop model: a student brings in a draft, and we talk about how to make it better. When ...

The internet has changed writing forever. Have you ever thought of your students alongside Hemingway, Shakespeare, and other well-known writers? They are actually: All their messages, blogs, and ...

Because my editor here at guardian.co.uk/books is unaccountably unwilling to allow italics in my submissions, I suspect you will be unable to understand the following: "You can't teach creative ...