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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a teaching tool, these arguments are often about students learning to support claims with evidence. Intro: Hook and thesis Point One: First claim & support Point Two: Second claim & support Point ...

As part of settler Canadian universities’ current drive to examine and undo our own colonialism and racism, we’ve been slowly opening our course assessments up to new ways of thinking and writing, new ...

Don’t make this mistake! Not only may these digital tools miss some spelling, punctuation and grammar issues BUT there are many other ways that manual editing can significantly improve your assignment ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Boston College professor Mary Sarah Bilder gives a brief overview backgrounding the Federalist Papers This is intended as an end-of-course review ...