Effective course design begins with understanding the process of thinking and learning. These processes are commonly termed "metacognition." Metacognition includes a critical awareness of one’s ...

Constructing an assignment that elicits good writing may be as difficult for teachers as writing the essays is for students, a forthcoming study suggests. Teachers must strike a delicate balance ...

Travis Grandy is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Find him on Twitter @travisgrandy or at his website. I work with a lot of instructors who use ...

Modern students constantly face many challenges in the form of complex topics, deadlines, and high requirements for assignments. Under stress and pressure against the background of responsibility for ...

Ensure students know the expectations of an assignment(s) rubrics should be shared with students in advance Clearly justify grades for students Rubrics can be used to evaluate progress, as well as to ...

This brief case study was written by Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda, Ronald E. Bulanda, J. Scott Brown, Aaron Abbott, & Rena Perez. Educators often incorporate extensive writing into their coursework to ...

In the pandemic, with classes online, teams working remotely, and conference rooms empty, managing group work (and writing with a group) is a challenge across industries. I’ve been taking on this ...