A group of students begins an in-class writing test. According to new data analysis, half of U.S. eighth graders have difficulty with long-form writing on tests and classwork that involves reading.

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Teachers can encourage students to concentrate on three aspects of drafting to improve their engagement with writing ...

Near the end of 2023, a popular YouTube creator known as hbomberguy released a video on plagiarism — a topic often confined to conversations in composition classrooms. The four-hour video, “Plagiarism ...

College is hard. With classes, jobs, friends, and sleep, big papers can feel too hard. Many students use essay services for help. Some question if these services are right, but many see them as tools ...

Many professors in the humanities are giving up on assigning papers. Working against the tsunami of AI writing is exhausting and disheartening. Those with heavy course loads can’t do it anymore. But ...

Two recent experiments highlight aspects of writing instruction that are rarely studied—or taught. Recent research suggests that secondary students can benefit significantly from learning how to ...

Industry leaders and researchers are introducing new strategies and tools to improve how people use AI in writing and education. Axios offered practical prompting techniques to maximize AI output, ...

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Lisa joined CNET after more than 20 years as a reporter and editor. Her coverage of AI ranged from a hands-on with OpenAI's empathetic Advanced Voice Mode to in-depth explainers on LLMs, ...

As AI cements itself firmly into classrooms, one large and lingering question concerns when and how students can use it appropriately. It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative ...

The new questions-of-the-week is: How do you get students to want to revise their writing? Getting students to revise their writing can be a challenge. Often, they have a “one-and-done” perspective.