Analytical essays are an advanced method of testing students’ critical thinking. As such, these essays require deep analysis of a given text, be it a novel, poem, essay, or else. To score a higher ...

The Common Core State Standards and the state assessments designed to measure them are demanding increased critical reading and analytical writing from students, and I’ve noticed a shift from teachers ...

When I started tutoring students in writing at a high-poverty D.C. public high school this year, I was prepared to run into some problems. I knew it was hard for an overworked teacher with a class of ...

We need to do a much better job of teaching our students to write effectively. Effective writing is far too important to be left to freshman rhetoric and composition courses or designated writing ...

In the kind of writing most of us do every day—the kind of writing I’ve mainly been concerned with in these columns—the only criteria that matter are clarity and precision. The kind of writing that ...

Located in Stokes 418S, the Writing Center offers one-to-one, 50-minute peer consultations to Boston College undergraduates looking for help with their writing. We work with written assignments from ...