A lot of things must run through your head before becoming a college student. You think about making the first steps of your adult life. You think about the parties you’re going to attend and the new ...

So, you are planning to pen down your first assignment. No need to panic! During the semester, your professors give you a lot of information, and doing coursework is one of the best ways to summarise ...

When writing assignments aren’t carefully designed and integrated into a course, they can feel like they have just been added on, and students don’t have a clear sense of what they should learn from ...

Experts tend to complete writing tasks more quickly than novices by combining or skipping steps due to years of practice and mastery. Our students often come to us as novices who are still learning ...

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in ...

Writing is often treated as a rigid process—start with a hook, end with a summary, and hope the middle holds together. But strong academic writing is more like architecture, requiring both solid ...

Alternative assignments that divert from the standard exam or essay provide students with novel, authentic tasks that are personally relevant and allow for the expression of multiple perspectives ...

When we give writing assignments in in-person courses, students have informal opportunities in class to ask clarifying questions about why they are completing the assignment, about our expectations, ...

Whether you are a school, college or university student, you have to work hard to complete your assignments well. However, due to this tough and busy schedule, students mostly fail to get good grades ...