I am not a big fan of those AI-enabled copywriting and content generation tools that are now mushrooming everywhere online. Several people use them to generate blog posts, articles, essay papers, you…
Writing is an important form of communication. It not only helps us communicate ideas with the world outside our minds but is also a window into our inner world. The way you write and phrase your sen…
Wordtune is an artificial intelligence-powered writing assistant that helps users improve their writing style. Wordtune understands the context of your writing and provides you with smart suggestions…
NoRedInk is a website that helps students become better writers. It offers a wide variety of writing and grammar activities together with targeted exercises that help learners develop specific writin…
The Wide Open School has this excellent resource featuring a wide variety of educational materials to use in reading and writing activities. These include audiobooks, writing prompts, interactive lan…
Draftback is a good web tool that allows you to playback the revision history of any Google Doc you can edit. You will be able to watch your edits roll out in a video player as if you are watching a …
Here's something most educators can agree on: many students struggle with academic
writing. Assigned essays and papers cause stress and, consequently, procrastination
and even plagiarism. As a ru…
As an advocate of the digital writing workshop , I believe that when teaching writing teachers should focus primarily on the process and only secondarily on the product. Such a focus can help students…
Quill is a great educational platform you can use with your students to help them enhance their writing skills. It provides a wide variety of materials designed specifically to help students become b…
The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an educational website that offers tons of excellent free writing resources for students and writers. OWL , which belongs to Purdue University, has a huge onlin…
StoryWars Classroom is an excellent web tool and Chrome extension you can use to engage students in creative writing projects. It provides students with a distraction free platform where they can exp…
September 20, 2017
Below is a collection of some good student interactives from ReadWriteThink . These are tools to help students with their writing. They can use them to brainstorm ideas, develop an …
Below are three more apps to add to our writing app collection. These are applications students can use to improve their writing and enhance their written communication skills. They will help them wi…
" On Writing: A Memoir of The Craft " is the culmination of Stephen King's prolific writing odyssey. After several decades of writing fiction, Stephen finally decided to aggregate all th…
Draftback is a good web tool that allows you to playback the revision history of any Google Doc you can edit. You will be able to watch your edits roll out in a video player as if you are watching a …
Here are two interesting web tools created by an English language teacher to help students with their writing. The first one is an online word counter to assist students evaluate length of sentences …
March 10, 2017
Quill is a is a free, web-based tool that provides personalized, interactive writing and grammar activities. 'Students using Quill learn writing and grammar skills by writing sente…
April 22, 2016
Below are three very good interactive graphic organizers students can use in their writing projects. These tools will particularly help students develop detailed outlines and organize…