Joanne JacobsFeb 202 minSympathy for the devil: What's the bad guy's point of view?Novelist Rachel Kadish tells her creative-writing students to write a first-person monologue by a character with "abhorrent" views that...
Joanne JacobsSep 23, 20232 minAI will change testing: Can it grade essays?Number 2 pencils and fill-in-the-bubble are out, writes Matteo Wong in The Atlantic. Standardized tests are going digital. In a few...
Joanne JacobsSep 5, 20232 minLet AI do it: High schoolers don't need to write essays any more"Good-bye and good riddance" to teaching students to write essays, writes Daniel Herman in The Atlantic. Herman, who teaches English at a...
Joanne JacobsMay 10, 20231 minRed, green, yellow, blue: Write a thesis, show it's trueThe 3-3-3 paragraph had a thesis sentence with a "subject and attitude," supported by three topic sentences, each of which was supported...