Analytical essays are an advanced method of testing students’ critical thinking. As such, these essays require deep analysis of a given text, be it a novel, poem, essay, or else. To score a higher ...

The Common Core State Standards and the state assessments designed to measure them are demanding increased critical reading and analytical writing from students, and I’ve noticed a shift from teachers ...

Each GRE verbal or quantitative reasoning test produces a total score from 130-170 in 1-point increments, where the analytical writing test receives a score between 0 and 6 in half-point increments.

We need to do a much better job of teaching our students to write effectively. Effective writing is far too important to be left to freshman rhetoric and composition courses or designated writing ...

A correlation between teacher professional development and improvements has been found in academic writing by English learners in grades 7-12. A study from the University of California, Irvine has ...

In the kind of writing most of us do every day—the kind of writing I’ve mainly been concerned with in these columns—the only criteria that matter are clarity and precision. The kind of writing that ...