Dry. Proscriptive. Wordy. Jargony. Boring. Many words have been used to describe scientific writing, very few of which would excite a reader to take a closer look into the contents of a paper. With ...

Even students with a solid grasp of English can find it hard to construct coherent arguments in their academic writing. A six-week training course centred around an AI-powered corpus platform could ...

An argumentative essay utilizes all the logical supports and factual evidence to convince the reader of a specific way of thinking. Many essays can persuade all the readers to believe a particular ...

To get high scores at essay writing tests, learners of English as a foreign language need to focus on good arguments more than on complex grammar. The finding challenges conventional approaches to ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do we teach ELLs formal language and how to write argument essays for the CCSS? The number of English Language Learners in our schools is growing and, at the ...

At the end of WR 111, students need to write a formal, argument-driven academic essay on the longer work (novel or memoir) that has been assigned. (Consult the sidebar here for the current list of ...

As more teachers are using both the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards, they will increasingly be confronted with a challenge: The standards in literacy and ...

While teaching argumentative writing to her college English class, Lauren John learns a thing or two herself. With the fall college semester in full swing online, students in my Zoom-based writing ...

Each Flipped Learning Module (FLM) is a set of short videos and online activities that can be used (in whole or in part) to free up class time from content delivery for greater student interaction. At ...