To help students understand the form and function of a summary and to prepare them to write their own summary paragraphs. Students have read a sample summary (i.e., an abstract of an journal article) ...

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 ...

In her 1989 book The Writing Life, Annie Dillard describes a fellow writer who was asked by a student if she thought he might become a writer. “Well, do you like sentences?” the fellow writer said.