“A top-down approach starts with a big picture, breaking it down into smaller components until achieving the objective. A bottom-up approach starts with small, individual components and builds to a ...

The typical approach to the research paper -- the generic term for pretty much all academic writing -- is to assign it as a summative assessment at the end of the semester. Faculty members normally ...

It took me a while to realize this about my own approach to Web page writing, but I have two different ways of writing. Here they are... First approach: I write the page as if I were writing a letter ...

On using blogs and other writing assignments that focus on self-reflection to build critical thinking skills in undergraduate courses for science students. Ingrid J. Paredes is a Ph.D. candidate in ...

Princeton Professor Chang-rae Lee-- regarded as one of the most talented novelists of his generation -- painstakingly composes every sentence of his works, revising each one 10 or 20 times, not moving ...

Like many writing clinicians I am excited when I find current research that supports writing to heal practices, so imagine my delight when Luciano L'Abate asked me to write a foreword for his recent ...