Analytical essays are an advanced method of testing students’ critical thinking. As such, these essays require deep analysis of a given text, be it a novel, poem, essay, or else. To score a higher ...

The Common Core State Standards and the state assessments designed to measure them are demanding increased critical reading and analytical writing from students, and I’ve noticed a shift from teachers ...

A correlation between teacher professional development and improvements has been found in academic writing by English learners in grades 7-12. A study from the University of California, Irvine has ...

I write academically for my English classes. I also write creatively, both for class and for my own personal life. Some of my favorite writing is the writing I do in my poetry journal and for the ...

We need to do a much better job of teaching our students to write effectively. Effective writing is far too important to be left to freshman rhetoric and composition courses or designated writing ...

In the kind of writing most of us do every day—the kind of writing I’ve mainly been concerned with in these columns—the only criteria that matter are clarity and precision. The kind of writing that ...