Having students move beyond descriptive paragraphs and five-paragraph essays can help improve their ability to write—and their love of doing it.

Near the end of 2023, a popular YouTube creator known as hbomberguy released a video on plagiarism — a topic often confined to conversations in composition classrooms. The four-hour video, “Plagiarism ...

(Editor’s Note: The students were asked to describe a particular person, place or item. These papers have gone through multiple revisions with instructor Scott Bertelsen and student teacher Carlie ...