Two recent experiments highlight aspects of writing instruction that are rarely studied—or taught. Recent research suggests that secondary students can benefit significantly from learning how to ...

Writing doesn%27t receive the attention it deserves in school. Technology has changed writing dramatically. Writing revolution must be nurtured and guided. We are in the midst of a writing revolution.

Fiction and poetry certainly have a place in America's schools. But when students don't learn how to articulate ideas, their options erode -- and our whole society is worse off for it. Since the ...

Pope Francis has made headline after headline for personally reaching out through letters and phone calls to people who have written to him, and speaking pastorally with them. The Italian newspaper La ...

"More than kisses, letters mingle souls", John Donne wrote, in To Sir Henry Wotton, four centuries before I discovered the lines – in Soundings, during my Leaving Cert English class – and was floored.

Wherever and whenever people need to work with information you will find paper. For most of us paper provides the best way to understand something, but the reasons why are not obvious. Research shows ...

I first read Doris Lessing’s novel The Good Terrorist in early 2012. At that time, London’s atmosphere was febrile, electric with the sense that violence could erupt at any moment. There was good ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Should it be surprising that a Wikipedia entry titled “2011 Egyptian Revolution” was prepared for publication ...

Annali d'Italianistica, Vol. 34, SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN ITALY (2016), pp. 57-78 (22 pages) On the occasion of Cola di Rienzo's ascension to power in Rome at the end of May ...