With the popularity of the new end-of-course (EOC) exams, colleges and high schools expected improved writing skills of students at all grade levels. Critics complained the previous TAKS exam taught ...

It's nothing to LOL about: Despite best efforts to keep school writing assignments formal, two-thirds of teens admit in a survey that emoticons and other informal styles have crept in. The Pew ...

Brief writing is more formal than conversation. You may say to a colleague that banking regulators are “super sensitive” to issues of integrity because the industry handles so much money, but in a ...

The W-Course, taken in the sophomore year, is the second stage in a student’s writing experiences at DePauw. Proficient writing skills cannot be learned once in a single writing class but must be ...

For all the hype Millennials get, nearly every K-12 student today is part of its successor generation—Gen Z—a group more plugged in and social than ever before. The internet is awash in surveys ...

Business documents -- such as letters, emails, memorandums and reports -- use paragraphs to separate different types of information, arguments and ideas. Paragraphs written in business format are ...

AP and NWP teachers participating in the survey report giving students written assignments ranging from research papers to short responses, journaling, and creative writing. The type and frequency of ...

The prevalence of Facebook, Twitter and texting has all but obliterated punctuation, capitalization and apostrophes in schools, threatening the future of formal writing, educators say. And it's no ...