Teaching Writing is designed for K-12 teachers, paraprofessionals, instructional coaches, and other school-based educators. Building on the research of Professor Emerita Maria Brisk, the workshop ...

Grounded in the principle that writing assessment should be locally developed and controlled, this article describes a study that contextualizes and validates the decisions that students make in the ...

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If you're an aspiring writer, you know that you have to read all kinds of books in order to hone your technique, but sometimes it might seem as if every writing book you look at is tailored toward ...

Language instructors are grappling with the question of how to teach writing effectively in upper-level undergraduate world language classes. At that point, students still have to master aspects of ...

The MFA program offers two areas of concentration: fiction and nonfiction. We will now focus on opportunities for innovative approaches to what is an all-but-unique MFA program concentrating on ...

Dennis Lehane has published a string of best-selling mystery novels that, some critics say, transcend the genre. Clint Eastwood turned Lehane’s “Mystic River” into a powerful, Oscar-winning film. He ...