In my last post here on Thoughts on Thinking, I discussed 7 Tips for Integrating Critical Thinking into your Writing and one of those tips was to develop an organized structure. In writing, not a ...

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 ...

In this lesson, Scott describes the ingredients of a good paragraph. Hello, I'm Scott. Today we're looking at paragraphs and how to use them in an essay. It's important to understand the structure of ...

Writing an essay is a fundamental skill that students must develop. Essays are not just academic exercises; they are a means of communication that can shape one's ability to convey ideas effectively.

In his blog The White Rhino: A Chicago Latino English Teacher, Ray Salazar argues that the five-paragraph essay should be tossed out the window. The Chicago public school teacher writes that the ...