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Make writing magic with engaging K-8 prompts

From argumentative essays to imaginative stories, K-8 writing prompt toolkits are helping students find their voice and sharpen their skills. These resources blend structure with creativity, guiding ...
Edutopia

6 Ways to Add Depth to Your ELA Lessons

Teachers can guide students to shift from looking for a right answer to thinking more critically about course content.
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard College Adds Required AI Module to Expository Writing Curriculum

All Harvard College freshmen enrolled in expository writing courses were required to complete a three-part training module on ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Plans to Increase Introductory Writing Course Sizes, Drawing Union Objections

Harvard plans to increase class sizes in a subset of its introductory writing courses, a move that union leaders said would improperly raise instructors’ workloads during ongoing contract negotiations ...
KITV

Lyric writing challenge and ukulele lessons for Hawaii students

HONOLULU (Island News) -- Music classes in schools like Saint Patrick are adding new lessons with the help of non-profit Lokahi and guest artists who act as mentors. "If they've never touched a ...
The Tufts Daily

Op-ed: Remembering Katharine Burnett, my Expository Writing professor

Kate Burnett has passed. (Well, I only recently found out, and it was five years ago when she departed this world.) She had reached the ripe old age of 94. She was a tough, older New Englander when I ...
Business Times

Lessons from writing with AI

Stop thinking of AI output as drafts to accept or reject. Instead, treat it as material to disassemble and recombine. The result: sharper writing LET’S start with the uncomfortable admission: Writing ...
Business Times

Lessons from writing with AI

LET’S start with the uncomfortable admission: Writing – with all due deference to our editors – turned out to be something artificial intelligence (AI) could do. It synthesised hundreds of academic ...
New York Post

Scientists discover oldest form of writing in mysterious Stone Age engravings

Stone Age artifacts discovered in a German cave could push back the origins of writing by 30,000 years. willbrasil - stock.adobe.com The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave ...
The Atlantic

Does Writing Have to Be Hard?

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. ChatGPT and food-delivery droids came to my campus at roughly the ...
Times Higher Education

Take your academic writing skills to the next level

Communicating the worth of your work to the academic world – and beyond – starts with writing. Writing for a journal, turning your work into a book or reviewing existing research all require distinct ...