A group of students begins an in-class writing test. According to new data analysis, half of U.S. eighth graders have difficulty with long-form writing on tests and classwork that involves reading.

This was an eighth-grade student’s response to a question I posed in a reading response assignment tied to the play, “The Diary of Anne Frank.” The question asked was: “Why does Anne hide Peter’s ...

A University of Warwick-led analysis of almost 5,000 student-authored reports suggests that student writing has become more polished and formal since the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022—but ...

Elementary teachers can use these books to give students an easy entry point into writing now that winter break is over—and ...

Dan Melzer, associate director of first-year composition at the University of California, Davis, shook up the research on teaching college-level writing in 2014 with his book Assignments Across the ...

Corrected: A word was misspelled in the title of the book co-authored by Magliozzi and Peterson. The correct title is AI in the Writing Workshop: Finding the Write Balance. Since ChatGPT’s release, we ...

Many professors in the humanities are giving up on assigning papers. Working against the tsunami of AI writing is exhausting and disheartening. Those with heavy course loads can’t do it anymore. But ...