At Smith, we believe writing is a crucial tool in all disciplines and that, as experts in their field, faculty are ideally positioned to teach it across the curriculum. Teaching students how to convey ...

preparing teachers and researching children’s writing development. Using a genre-based pedagogy informed by systemic functional linguistics, participants will learn how to teach specific genres. The ...

To that end, we offer writing services and resources, public speaking resources, and tutoring and learning specialist services. For faculty, we offer workshops on the teaching of writing, guidance ...

Experts tend to complete writing tasks more quickly than novices by combining or skipping steps due to years of practice and mastery. Our students often come to us as novices who are still learning ...

“Writing can be a powerful tool ... it clear why the final sentence you chose is the best. “Just as we might teach students ...

In the wake of research showing failures in transfer of writing skills, the question of how to help students see how their learning goes beyond individual learning experiences has become a pressing ...

Though the increased capabilities of AI writing tools, such as ChatGPT, cause concerns in education, there are several ways to integrate this technology as a means for helping students learn depending ...

How do teachers captivate their students? Here, in a feature we call How I Teach, we ask great educators how they approach ...

Twenty years ago, when I started my career as an ESL teacher in Houston, Texas, I remember the struggles of teaching persuasive writing to English learners. I had students who were bright, ...

Here's what our readers said about why they think cursive writing should still be taught in schools, as well as some tips on ...

Common misconceptions about responding to and grading writing can get in the way of using writing as an effective pedagogical strategy. Here, we attempt to dispel some of these misconceptions and ...