Some supervisors and employers choose to allow each employee to figure out his own work schedule and necessary assignments, while others prefer to create specific assignments for each employee to ...

In the pandemic, with classes online, teams working remotely, and conference rooms empty, managing group work (and writing with a group) is a challenge across industries. I’ve been taking on this ...

Embarking on your first journalism assignment can feel both exciting and intimidating. The blank page stares back at you, full of potential yet demanding structure, accuracy, and engaging content.

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 ...

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 ...

In education–and particularly with my graduate students in higher education–students occasionally focus on the individual points of an assignment rubric instead of stepping back and looking ...

Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt the dread of an upcoming assignment and wished for a clone to take on the task. Hey, we’ve all been there! But the truth is, even without a partner, you can ...