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 ...

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 ...

One Tuesday not long ago, I glanced up in between one-on-one student conferences to see my 10th graders hunched over school laptops, typing furiously. I had just left David in the process of fixing ...

When writing a college admissions essay, there are typically three phases or steps that students must complete: brainstorming, writing and revising. For some, the last step can seem like an irritating ...

Our major and minor draw on three main areas of Professional Writing: Rhetorical Theory and Practice, Creative Writing/Editing and Publishing, and Digital and Technical Writing. The purpose of our ...

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.

Northwestern undergrads can get help with writing assignments through our partner, the Writing Place. Staffed by juniors and seniors, the Writing Place is Northwestern’s center for peer writing ...

Writing essays can be tough. It requires good writing skills, the ability to research well, cite sources properly, organize ideas, and more. If you’re stuck and don’t know where to begin, consider ...

College students today face an unprecedented writing load. Do not believe me? A longitudinal study of student writing in American colleges by Andrea and Karen Lunsford has shown that the average ...