During peer editing yesterday, I did not get my paper edited like it should have been. I left class crying because they were making fun of how I was writing all over the person’s paper I was editing.

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 writing. What do the terms mean? On one ...

Because we know that becoming a successful writer is crucial to a student’s overall trajectory at school, work, and as a citizen, teachers must identify the tools that can best support writing ...

Tara Bogozan is an English teacher and AVID Elective educator. She has taught both middle and high school in the Atlanta metro area for over 17 years. You can follow her @mrs_tbogo on Twitter: ...

The Drexel Writing Center supports all members of our Drexel University community to develop as writers. We offer access to free, confidential consultations on writing projects, from interpreting ...

This list can help you economize the tasks of composing and editing your work. You have to put yourself in productive locations and in the right mindset!

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 ...

"In a rough draft, we are rarely economical: We repeat ourselves, we belabor the obvious, we cushion our thoughts in excess language. ... Long sentences are not necessarily wordy, nor are short ...

I always enjoy my writing workshops at the Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading. This year about 100 members of the public crowded into a small theater to hear me fool around on the piano and toss out ...