In education–and particularly with my graduate students in higher education–students occasionally focus on the individual points of an assignment rubric instead of stepping back and looking ...

How exactly does this assignment fit with the objectives of your course? Should this assignment relate only to the class and the texts for the class, or should it also relate to the world beyond the ...

The Writing Center's consultants strive to help students understand and engage with writing assignments in productive ways. Unfortunately, we sometimes encounter assignment sheets that are difficult ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The students’ assignment: Write an op-ed about lead poisoning in Lewiston-Auburn. Or write a caption for a photo, or text about a campus tree. Write about how strange quantum theory is, or write a ...

This brief case study was written by Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda, Ronald E. Bulanda, J. Scott Brown, Aaron Abbott, & Rena Perez. Educators often incorporate extensive writing into their coursework to ...