Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. When students can’t understand what they’re reading, it may be because ...

For a first-year Bates student, the leap from high school to college-level writing can be a daunting one. You tackle new genres, you look at evidence more critically. And you learn that at Bates, good ...

When writing an essay, it’s important to think about which aspects you would like to include in your paper. For example, are there definitions or background information that you’d like to explain ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the single most effective instructional strategy you have used to teach writing? Teaching and learning good writing can be a challenge to educators and ...

Writers choose and build different types of sentences carefully. There are three main types of sentence structure - simple close simple sentenceA sentence containing one clause made up of a subject ...

Each of the paragraphs below contains three underlined sentences. Read each paragraph and then click on the sentence (or sentences) that you think is the topic sentence of that paragraph. Carpeting ...

Every writer, from first-year students to seasoned professors, occasionally struggles with paragraph structure. In this week’s article, I’ll explore the most common issues and their solutions in ...

In this episode we will find out all about paragraphs and how they consist of topic sentences, supporting sentences and developing sentences. Plus we will talk about the words we use to describe ...

This page will help you to organise and plan an academic paragraph by outlining clear structures to adapt and follow. Paragraphs are the building blocks of your written work, and a good essay or ...