As part of settler Canadian universities’ current drive to examine and undo our own colonialism and racism, we’ve been slowly opening our course assessments up to new ways of thinking and writing, new ...

We are reading this article not for its content – although I expect it to be of interest to many of you, especially the criminology majors – but as an illustration of how to think in terms of ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do we teach ELLs formal language and how to write argument essays for the CCSS? The number of English Language Learners in our schools is growing and, at the ...

If you still think you can’t write an argumentative essay, think again. Remember the last time you convinced your roommate to get the pizza topping you like. Or that time you ranted on TikTok about ...

A conclusion is the final idea left with the reader at the end of an essay. Without it, an essay would be unfinished and unfocused. A conclusion should link back to the essay question and briefly ...

Dry. Proscriptive. Wordy. Jargony. Boring. Many words have been used to describe scientific writing, very few of which would excite a reader to take a closer look into the contents of a paper. With ...

An argument paper is one in which the author takes a specific stance on a topic and attempts to sway the reader. Argument papers are not always assigned as such and may include certain types of ...