The new questions-of-the-week is: How do you get students to want to revise their writing? Getting students to revise their writing can be a challenge. Often, they have a “one-and-done” perspective.

Ernest Hemingway famously said that writers should “write hard and clear about what hurts”. Although Hemingway may not have known it at the time, research has now shown that writing about “what hurts” ...

Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, writing allows you to, at once, name your pain and create distance from it.