Writing well takes time. Writing well does not mean just sitting down and beginning to write sentences until you reach the page limit. Starting writing the night before your assignment is due doesn't ...

I have written before about the writing process. The writing process has five components: brainstorming, rough draft, editing, revising, and publishing. Some writers follow it with their own tweaks, ...

My next book, A Living Remedy, will be out in April. Last month, when I shared designer Vivian Lowe’s gorgeous cover for it and began begging for preorders (as writers must), it felt like the ...

An essay should express continued thought and/or research on a particular subject. It is harder to collect and research information when it is all done at the last minute. Time management is integral ...

Matthew Johnson is an English teacher from Ann Arbor, Mich., and the author of Flash Feedback: Responding to Student Writing Better and Faster – Without Burning Out (published by Corwin Press). His ...

After comprehensively editing the hundreds of college compositions and articles that come across my desk each semester—and having waded through tens of thousands of essays and papers from students I ...