Matthew Johnson is an English teacher from Ann Arbor, Mich., and the author of Flash Feedback: Responding to Student Writing Better and Faster – Without Burning Out (published by Corwin Press). His ...

Undergraduate students are often pressed for time. Nonetheless, good writing is not a linear process that begins with the introduction and ends at the conclusion. Revision and reorganization is almost ...

This update on the old-school strategy of using index cards to collect textual evidence helps students slow down and focus on ...

Revision implies a “re-seeing” of your text, not just a quick clean up. To effectively revise, or re-see, writers should focus on rhetorical concerns that have significant impact on the text. For ...

Writing is not simply a matter of expressing pre-existing thoughts clearly. It’s the process through which ideas are produced and refined. Of all the pearls of wisdom I’ve picked up over the years, ...