Thanks to a strong oral Urdu literary tradition in South Asia, poems from the past linger in the popular imagination.
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Larry David has called time on the misanthropic cult TV comedy classic after 12 seasons and 120 episodes.
It’s possible to work with restricted resources to design and implement creative initiatives to serve the particular needs of Indigenous students at university.
Learning how to produce polished prose can greatly enhance your value on the job.
By compiling stories about the accomplishments of women, Christine set out to build an allegorical city where women and their achievements would be safe from sexist insults and slander.
Undergraduate writing courses are about learning to think, synthesize and judge the credibility of sources — and interact with an audience.
It’s tempting to see this trend as a sign of the times. But the biggest book publishers started changing their approach only once they realized they were leaving money on the table.
Turns out ‘A’ didn’t have to be the first letter in the alphabet, nor ‘Z’ the last.
Research suggests the act of creative writing can have therapeutic benefits.
I want to help people without prior knowledge of art history write about issues that affect them – through the prism of an artwork.
Evidence suggests that writing was probably invented in southern Iraq sometime before 3000BC. But what happened next?
By disguising her name, Alcott could publish in less prestigious venues without worrying about tarnishing her literary reputation.
In Byatt’s fiction, northern locations become emblems of the climate crisis and of how human actions have detrimental effects on the whole planet.
A survey about college writing instructors’ fears and anxieties about AI demonstrates that student cheating isn’t their only concern. And in fact, many have embraced it as a teaching tool.
Men in the 1700s penned vehement letters about the way women dressed, slut-shaming them as “cork-rumped devils”.
What makes a great writer? A key element is the right teacher. Belinda Castles reflects on her own guides, as do authors such as Margaret Drabble, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Paul Theroux in a new book.
African immigrant writers possess particularly acute insights into the way race and racism affect daily life in the US.
Scholars differ over whether having students use AI in their assignments will help or hurt their careers after graduation.
Researchers had college students and AI take a standardized test in creative thinking, and all of them were scored by trained evaluators who didn’t know in advance that some had been completed by AI.
Handwriting is a learned skill that must be taught through direct, developmentally progressive, consistent and sustained instruction. Teachers will need professional development and resources.
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