Undergraduate students are often pressed for time. Nonetheless, good writing is not a linear process that begins with the introduction and ends at the conclusion. Revision and reorganization is almost ...

Last October I met the author Lauren Groff at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville. I wanted a chance to hear from the author of a favorite book, Arcadia, and I wanted an autograph for my copy ...

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.

As an important process in creating, it is important to refine and rework the work after it is finished. Indiana University Bloomington's English and Creative Writing classes will teach you important ...

I am in the midst of revising a book about writing, which has me simultaneously thinking about writing in the context of what I’m saying in the book and reflecting on the writing I am doing as the ...

Picture this: You’ve just finished writing your paper. You’ve poured your heart and soul into it, slaving over research, crafting arguments, and battling the dreaded writer’s block. You no longer need ...

We know that writing is an important skill. For example, research shows that writing is one of the most highly valued skills by employers (e.g., Hart Research Associates, 2013), it can help our mental ...

Not all thinking happens in conversation. For some introverts, writing is where thought begins—slowly, privately, and with surprising depth.