Travis Grandy is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Find him on Twitter @travisgrandy or at his website. I work with a lot of instructors who use ...

Sometimes it is difficult to know how to best approach writing about television, film or web media. Much of this process begins with understanding your assignment: this will have an impact on your ...

Effective course design begins with understanding the process of thinking and learning. These processes are commonly termed "metacognition." Metacognition includes a critical awareness of one’s ...

Group assignments are common in university courses, especially in projects that carry significant weight toward your final grade. These larger assignments are designed to assess not only subject ...

Whether you are a school, college or university student, you have to work hard to complete your assignments well. However, due to this tough and busy schedule, students mostly fail to get good grades ...

In the digital age of texting and online social networking, “writing” is no longer confined to the assignments students get in the classroom. Many teachers are still trying to define these new forms ...

Much research suggests that more writing is associated with more learning, and that’s given more credence to the Writing Across the Curriculum movement, which promotes the importance of writing ...

Assignments: Make Them Effective, Engaging, and Equitable. At their best, assignments are one of the most important learning experiences for students in a course. Students grapple with course content, ...