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I would like to help my students develop the paradoxical ability to write clear, creative, logical reasoning and evidence simultaneously with powerful emotional writing, while recognizing the ...

Here’s a teaching idea from an English teacher in Scotland that may come as a surprise: using spam emails to teach persuasive writing and other lessons to your students. In The Guardian‘s Teacher ...

Route 66, America’s most celebrated highway, is something altogether different today. It is no longer “the best” way to get from Chicago to the West Coast. In many places, the historic road is buried ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

A group of Lafayette second-graders were tasked with designing cookies and using their words to persuade a bakery to make them. It worked. Cookie Mama, a home bakery in Youngsville, brought their ...

Hello, I’m Mr Smith. And today we’re going to look at different purposes for writing. Why do we write? We write for different reasons or for different… purposes. When we write, we want to have a ...

If persuasion is an art, some third-graders at Conrad Weiser East Elementary School have it just about mastered. Students in the classes of Nancy Schafer and David Morris have been practicing their ...

So I'm just looking at advertising phrases "Buy one, get one free.""New year, a new you.""Hurry now while stocks last." Just thinking about how advertisers use their key words and imagery to push ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - A group of Lafayette second-graders were tasked with designing cookies and using their words to persuade a bakery to make them. It worked. Cookie Mama, a home bakery in ...

Schools are being encouraged to explicitly teach writing across all subjects – including science, history and potentially ­standard maths – not just English, in a bid to improve students’ writing ...