Need to find more sources?  Follow the trail!  Read the footnotes and bibliography references from an article or book that […]

Paper topics are like some rivers: the broad ones are shallow, but the narrow ones are deep.  Focus your topic, […]

Write your thesis statement early, and re-write it often.

Invert syntax and end up sounding like Yoda, do not.

  Teachers know that not everything they write on students’ papers leads to effective revision.  A recent study in the […]

Two recent studies (in Learning and Instruction and the Journal of Literary Research) look at the effectiveness of different sorts […]

Although many students—especially those for whom English is not their primary language—can be reluctant to offer feedback to their peers […]

We know that good writing usually takes multiple drafts, buta recent study in the journal Research in the Teaching of […]

Novice writers often demonstrate a “myside bias” in their writing, ignoring points of view different from their own.  Research published […]