School-based writing tends to be driven by prompts, narrow (and inauthentic) rules, teacher-/standards-driven purposes and audiences, and rubric-based assessments. Those characteristics are ...

In teaching writing by using increasingly complex, teacher-created prompts we tend to leave students' actual thoughts and voices out of the process, says Ariel Sacks.

But despite attempts to prevent me from doing so, I won’t shy away from writing about tough topics — no matter what I choose to do. Andrea Bian is a Medill first-year. She can be contacted at ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was joined in conversation about standards of excellence in legal reasoning and how the law's coherence is principally advanced or impeded in opinion writing.

By writing op-eds and letters, my own beliefs and those of others have changed. A recent example of this is a claim I made approving of the New York Times anonymous op-ed author to avoid going public.

Students led into writing this way at the start of a course--writing about abstract ideas in terms of concrete objects--find it strange at first, but they are pleased that the task is actually doable.

A systematic approach to writing instruction is missing from the knowledge base. Between 2005 and 2012, a teacher-led approach to drilling down to analyze what was missing, called Strategic Inquiry, ...

Her essay does what opinion writing should do for society: help us understand and improve our own and one another’s lives. Jonathan Malesic is the author of “ The End of Burnout .” ...

Few Princeton students can forget their writing seminars. From the stress and confusion over the D1 to the feeling of accomplishment unique to finally submitting the R3, the mandatory first-year ...