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 ...

Assignments: Make Them Effective, Engaging, and Equitable. At their best, assignments are one of the most important learning experiences for students in a course. Students grapple with course content, ...

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 ...

How can you design assignments so that students use AI responsibly—or don’t use it at all? Many faculty have found themselves thinking differently about their course assignments since generative AI ...

In February Howe Writing Across the Curriculum partnered with Howe Writing Center consultants to present a workshop series on Assignment Design, focusing on clarity, audience, and accessibility. Led ...

Writing assignments, no matter the course level or discipline, offer students the opportunity to think deeply about the content they are learning and display their thinking more fully (Hughes, n.d.).

Writing is a valuable educational tool for learning. In the classroom, writing can help students grapple with and understand content more deeply and help students learn disciplinary ways of knowing ...

Journals have become a popular format in recent years for courses that require some writing. In-class journal entries can spark discussions and reveal gaps in students' understanding of the material.

Dr. Ann Marie VanDerZanden is preparing students in her horticulture classes for challenging careers by boosting their critical thinking capacity. "Horticulture graduates entering the field of ...

A qualitative case study at Zimbabwe Open University finds that generative AI and reference management tools enhance ...