What makes a good introduction for a dissertation? Graduate students practice critiquing one another’s thesis chapters, but they rarely read the introductions — usually because those are ...

Make AI Part of the Assignment Learning requires friction. Here’s how to get students to disclose and evaluate their own usage of tools like ChatGPT.

How to Write a Good Introduction Section A strong narrative is as integral a part of science writing as it is for any other form of communication.

Writing the assignment There are a number of different ways to structure your assignment. Different teachers will recommend different ways.

S tudents at Hampton Middle School in Hampton, Ga., were given a homework assignment that required them to write a letter asking lawmakers for stricter gun-control laws.

Stupid %&#$!. Origins: This Tandem Story "writing assignment" first appeared on the Internet in February 1997, when it popped up in the newsgroup rec.humor, having gotten there from a joke list.

Dr. Phillips High School in Orange County, Fla., fired Jeffrey Keene after he asked students to write their own obituaries in a lesson on the topic of school shootings.

A middle school teacher on Long Island is under investigation for allegedly asking students to "write something funny" about pictures of slavery as part of a class assignment.

The assignment instructed students to write a short story about a sexual fantasy that included three items, such as massage oil, flavoured syrup, and feathers, without any penetration or oral sex.

A Georgia school gave fourth graders an assignment that prompted them to write from the point of view of an English colonizer in America and justify the removal of indigenous people from their land.