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.

When high school students get into the habit of revising their writing, it has a positive impact on the quality of their work. Finding ways to motivate students to revise their writing is crucial ...

Some teachers and scholars may merge editing and revising, and that is OK because there is one less step, but the same amount of work is undertaken. So what is revision? In simplest terms, it may mean ...

Do the terms ‘revise’ and ‘edit’ mean the same? What do you think? Well, they are sometimes used interchangeably even though they are really two distinct activities writers engage in to improve their ...

Revision implies a “re-seeing” of your text, not just a quick clean up. To effectively revise, or re-see, writers should focus on rhetorical concerns that have significant impact on the text. For ...

From brainstorming to grammar checks, generative AI can support your writing process, if you know how to use it right. This online session will show how generative AI tools can help you clarify ideas, ...

Revision is re-seeing the writing you've done so far while keeping the reader in mind. It's your chance to look at your writing objectively to see how a reader would interpret and respond to your ...

If you trust the internet, Albert Einstein once said something like “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” On a less-lofty note, the novelist Robert Stone ...

(This is the final post in a five-part series. You can see Part One here; Part Two here; Part Three here, and Part Four here.) The new question-of-the-week is: How do you get students to want to ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Narmada Paul, University of Kentucky (THE CONVERSATION) When high school students get ...