Students are often asked to write arguments beginning in their English classes, but don’t realize that argumentation strategies can be used in many different disciplines, such as defending research, ...

Do your paragraphs present arguments which support your main points as non-debatable or as facts? Do you have adequate and convincing support? Do one or two of your paragraphs present arguments which ...

Are you working on a research project? Do you want some extra practice integrating sources into your writing? Join the Writing Resource Center for an interactive Zoom workshop titled “Evidence and ...

After piloting the National Writing Project's (NWP) Student Using Sources Tool with 8th graders in 2017-18, Susan King and Aimee Douglas, teachers at Lebanon Middle School in Lebanon, Mo., became huge ...

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 ...

Now, here’s my argument: Writing matters not because we compose new ideas, but because we begin to see old ones in a new light. During our first class, my creative writing professor told us, “To write ...

Harvard in 1900 had only one required course -- freshman composition -- reflecting the faculty’s belief that writing was too important a skill to be left to caprice. After all, back in 1874-- 1874! -- ...

The real problem is not the use of AI itself. The problem is that writing classes have often focused too much on the finished essay and not enough on the thinking behind it.