This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. Unlike research essays you probably did as a high-school student, college-level research writing is argumentative and does not ...

Require many reliable sources to back up your thesis/claim. Take up a position and support it with evidence. Usually about events (historical or current), textual arguments, or personal interests.

It started with chocolate milk. I was planning a research unit for my 7th graders, but I wanted to do something different—something that would flip a traditional research unit on its head and be more ...

For this assignment, you will read and mark two of your peers’ drafts and write a letter to each peer identifying areas for revision with suggestions for revision. For two of your peers’ essay drafts, ...

You know the feeling. You open a blank document, reread the assignment for the fifth time, and somehow an hour disappears without a single solid paragraph on the page.For many students and ...