More middle and high school students than in the past have mastered the formal “basic” writing skills needed to express ideas or share information, national assessment results released today show.

From the early formation of letters to crafting an essay, writing involves perhaps more subskills than any other academic task. To write well requires combining multiple physical and mental ...

If writing is also a skill, and I believe it to be, it’s worth asking: what is its foundational unit? Some believe that it is the sentence, and if we want to teach students to write, we need to first ...

Academic writing differs greatly from other types of writing. It gives not that much space for creativity, but rather requires structure, research, and analysis. That is why students do not feel ...

Registration for Creative Writing Basics I and Basics II is $65 for members and $75 for non-members and registration can be done online at www.midwestwritingcenter.org. The online workshops are ...

Michael Meckler, creator of Newscript.com, provides a few basic tips for writing radio news stories and advising what you can do to keep your radio script engaging: Keep it simple There are three ...