Nowadays, students must prepare assignments based on current affairs knowledge. From studying political events, environmental issues, or social issues, writing well-thought-out and well-written ...

Sometimes it is difficult to know how to best approach writing about television, film or web media. Much of this process begins with understanding your assignment: this will have an impact on your ...

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 ...

Howe Writing Across the Curriculum recently partnered with consultants in the Howe Writing Center to present a series of workshops on Assignment Design, featuring real-time feedback from our student ...

This is a story about some school district leaders who need some education — fast. In an effort to have students meet Common Core standards relating to critical thinking, a group of eighth grade ...

A recent assignment in an Iowa State University course on international studies is getting national attention.James Strohman assigned students to write a historical account of the 9/11 terrorist ...