Writing well takes time. Writing well does not mean just sitting down and beginning to write sentences until you reach the page limit. Starting writing the night before your assignment is due doesn't ...

With frequent modeling, teachers can guide their students to work through the writing process with confidence.

Content marketing is one of the most common and powerful marketing tools for startup founders. The reason is simple - it could be done cheaply, and at the same time it could have huge impact if done ...

Some teachers and scholars may merge editing and revising, and that is OK because there is one less step, but the same amount of work is undertaken. So what is revision? In simplest terms, it may mean ...

I recently led a faculty writing retreat. During a discussion about sustaining writing momentum, we talked about the power of writers asking readers for feedback if they are stuck. Yet most writers ...

This third entry in an occasional series from Roy Peter Clark, who witnessed the Poynter Institute’s founding, explores its history in honor of its 50th anniversary. It would be hard to estimate how ...

If there’s one approach to writing songs that works every time, I still haven’t found it. There are, of course, those rare times where you’re inspired and it all just comes to you effortlessly. But ...

My next book, A Living Remedy, will be out in April. Last month, when I shared designer Vivian Lowe’s gorgeous cover for it and began begging for preorders (as writers must), it felt like the ...

Matthew Johnson is an English teacher from Ann Arbor, Mich., and the author of Flash Feedback: Responding to Student Writing Better and Faster – Without Burning Out (published by Corwin Press). His ...

Turnitin, a company typically known for catching plagiarism in students’ writing assignments, is refocusing its efforts on the needs of teachers with its newest formative writing tool, Revision ...