When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

A University of Wyoming faculty member wants to help college students become better writers of science by giving academics ...

In this conversation, Jan DeFehr argues that ethical practice requires access to what the field itself disputes, including ...

The National Council on Teacher Quality has given failing grades to three public universities in Maine for how their teacher preparation programs teach reading ...

This week, the staff from Poor Richard’s Books in Colorado Springs recommends books that touch on conspiracy, calm and calamity. From the publisher: Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache ...

Unless the bookshelf has no backing and can be flipped around, putting them in backwards is, indeed, dumb. It is the home ...

Bird by Bird encouraged would-be writers to blast past their hang-ups and embrace “shitty first drafts.” But there’s more to ...

As reading shifts from shared print cultures to fragmented digital feeds, what happens to the common habits that once ...

This past year, a computer scientist named Tuhin Chakrabarty tried to coax artificial intelligence into producing great writing. Chakrabarty, who had recently completed a Ph.D. at Columbia University, ...

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Readers on TikTok and Instagram are making the aesthetics of reading more visible than ever with creative, and often intricate, annotations. Called marginalia, these markups can be elaborate, with ...

I used to think mentor texts were just something you pulled off the shelf during writing time. But once I started using them intentionally—really slowing down and showing students how authors craft ...