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 ...

At a recent conference on teaching in higher education, I attended a session on ChatGPT. The session organizers, a team from the University of Central Florida, began by asking us to position ourselves ...

When most teachers introduce a new writing project, students usually respond with groans, moans, or a sudden stomachache that needs an immediate trip to the nurse’s office. It is critical to ...

I’ve always found that getting into the heads of your students is one of the best ways to learn what they bring with them into the classroom. In today’s stressful, standardized testing-based culture, ...

Assignments: Make Them Effective, Engaging, and Equitable. At their best, assignments are one of the most important learning experiences for students in a course. Students grapple with course content, ...

In the pandemic, with classes online, teams working remotely, and conference rooms empty, managing group work (and writing with a group) is a challenge across industries. I’ve been taking on this ...

Picture yourself looking at a blank screen, trying to write your dissertation while the deadline gets closer. In the UK, research papers and dissertations are important parts of your degree, and they ...

The Undergraduate GWAR is a CSU-wide requirement that should be completed by undergraduate students in their junior year. All undergraduate students must satisfy the Graduation Writing Assessment ...