The West African Senior Certificate School Examination is still on and we will again dedicate today’s lesson to another important aspect of it. This has got to do with the differences between ...

A new course in the College is allowing first-years to put that idea into practice as part of “Inquiry, Conversation, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Boston College professor Mary Sarah Bilder gives a brief overview backgrounding the Federalist Papers This is intended as an end-of-course review ...

Coming up with points for expository compositions can be a bugbear for secondary students, especially if it’s an argumentative piece. You don’t just need to come up with content, you need to come up ...

A written argument is not the same as a verbal argument with a friend – which is often full of passion and you say strongly what you think. When you write to argue, your audience are strangers not ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do we teach ELLs formal language and how to write argument essays for the CCSS? Part One’s responses came from Tan Huynh, Vicky Giouroukakis, Maureen Connolly, ...

When writing to persuade, try to convince the reader to agree with your viewpoint. Persuasive writing in non-fiction can be in the form of a speech, a letter, an advert or even a magazine article.