For a first-year Bates student, the leap from high school to college-level writing can be a daunting one. You tackle new genres, you look at evidence more critically. And you learn that at Bates, good ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the single most effective instructional strategy you have used to teach writing? Teaching and learning good writing can be a challenge to educators and ...

Think about all of your ideas and what you would like to do with them. Write or draw them out and see if you can find a connection between these ideas. Limit your ideas Find a connection that links ...

An independent clause is basically a complete sentence; it can stand on its own and make sense. An independent clause consists of a subject (e.g. “the dog”) and a verb (e.g. “barked”) creating a ...

There are a few rules that are drummed so incessantly into our heads in school that we cannot help but internalize them. One is "No sentence fragments!" Actually, that should be "Don't use sentence ...