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 ...

The new questions-of-the-week is: How do you get students to want to revise their writing? Getting students to revise their writing can be a challenge. Often, they have a “one-and-done” perspective.

Undergraduate students are often pressed for time. Nonetheless, good writing is not a linear process that begins with the introduction and ends at the conclusion. Revision and reorganization is almost ...

As an important process in creating, it is important to refine and rework the work after it is finished. Indiana University Bloomington's English and Creative Writing classes will teach you important ...

Picture this: You’ve just finished writing your paper. You’ve poured your heart and soul into it, slaving over research, crafting arguments, and battling the dreaded writer’s block. You no longer need ...

I am in the midst of revising a book about writing, which has me simultaneously thinking about writing in the context of what I’m saying in the book and reflecting on the writing I am doing as the ...

WRITING entails a lot of work, and it’s not for the fainthearted. It is, however, an achievable task! One major thing to do is to go through the stages of the writing process to achieve more in less ...

We know that writing is an important skill. For example, research shows that writing is one of the most highly valued skills by employers (e.g., Hart Research Associates, 2013), it can help our mental ...