Throughout my development as a secondary English teacher, I’ve found fiction and poetry effective in teaching students that reading literature can impact their lives. Over the past few years, though, ...

The West African Senior Certificate School Examination is still on and we will again dedicate today’s lesson to another important aspect of it. This has got to do with the differences between ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do we teach ELLs formal language and how to write argument essays for the CCSS? Part One’s responses came from Tan Huynh, Vicky Giouroukakis, Maureen Connolly, ...

We are reading this article not for its content – although I expect it to be of interest to many of you, especially the criminology majors – but as an illustration of how to think in terms of ...

M y students can’t write a clear sentence to save their lives. It’s my job to help them change that. I have taught writing for 10 years. Much like Joseph R. Teller, whose October essay criticizing how ...

When writing to persuade, try to convince the reader to agree with your viewpoint. Persuasive writing in non-fiction can be in the form of a speech, a letter, an advert or even a magazine article.