Specific writing strategies can play an important role in boosting reading comprehension. That’s the bottom-line finding of a new analysis of research. The report, out today from the Carnegie ...

Writing instructors need to do more to prevent colleges from adopting tests that only narrowly measure students’ writing abilities, several experts said last week at the annual meeting of the ...

Sometimes you don’t know what you want to say. Other times you don’t know the right way to say it. And very often you can’t get your butt in the chair to write anything at all. Whether it’s reports ...

Educational technology developer LearningExpress is launching a new program tailored specifically for the writing portion of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). The FCAT eFolio program ...

The UC Davis School of Education and Twin Rivers Unified School District will host a Youth Poetry Slam assembly on Oct. 14 to celebrate a new literacy project, “Closing the Achievement Gap Write Now.” ...

A while back we asked whether cursive handwriting is dead. More recently, the New York Times chimed in by saying that, at a minimum, cursive writing is in "a woeful state" and has offered some ...

Writing well isn’t easy. In fact, it’s “hard work,” said William Zinsser, author of On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. “A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come ...

Jeff Bradford, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Nashville, is the founder of the Bradford Group and president of Bradford Dalton Group, a full-service public relations and advertising ...

So you’ve been wanting to write—for your blog, for your company, for industry publications, or maybe just for fun. But you’re not sure where to get started. Or maybe you’ve never even considered ...

The 1997 Connecticut Mastery Test scores show Ellington students continuing to score well in math and reading while improving their marks in writing, which has been a weak area in the past. “Overall, ...