You’ve just completed a writing course. Perhaps recently graduated from college. Maybe your career has finally ended, and now that you’ve reached retirement you’re free to pursue your long-awaited dream of writing a book. You can’t wait to rush to the computer and finally get started on this long-held dream.
Slow down or you’ll find yourself [...]

 
As students get older, the texts we use to teach them get increasingly more difficult. Also, teachers rely more heavily on nonfiction texts to teach higher-level concepts. Further, the skills students use to comprehend nonfiction are different than for fictional texts. Most of us would agree that content area teachers in middle and high [...]

Creative writing can be fun and many fiction writers find out the best way to better their writings is to write as much as they can. Creative writing, such as fiction writing or poetry writing is an art. However, there are skills and tools with many different techniques that can be used to develop for [...]