Modern students constantly face many challenges in the form of complex topics, deadlines, and high requirements for assignments. Under stress and pressure against the background of responsibility for ...

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 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 ...

Howe Writing Across the Curriculum recently partnered with consultants in the Howe Writing Center to present a series of workshops on Assignment Design, featuring real-time feedback from our student ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ensure students know the expectations of an assignment(s) rubrics should be shared with students in advance Clearly justify grades for students Rubrics can be used to evaluate progress, as well as to ...

In the digital age of texting and online social networking, “writing” is no longer confined to the assignments students get in the classroom. Many teachers are still trying to define these new forms ...