When I first taught personal narrative in my freshmen Literature and Writing course last year I planned a traditional unit. I practiced descriptive writing techniques by having them listen to the ...

Funded by a Teaching and Learning Development Grant, this first video examines ways to improve narrative writing and what its goals are. Many students do not fully understand how to write narratives ...

Storytelling saved my sanity during the coronavirus pandemic. The lockdown afforded me time to write and share stories about my life and career. I wasn't writing my memoir as much as I was engaged in ...

As an advocate of writing for healing, I often find that there are students in my workshops who are trying to come to terms with past traumas. A large number of those dealing with such traumas have ...

Lucy Calkins, founding director of the Reading and Writing Project at Teachers College, Columbia University, is one of the most influential literacy educators in the country. She is the author of the ...

I should have had a ready answer at my fingertips (but it was early in the morning and I hadn’t opened my can of Red Bull). I mumbled something about an attempt to impose order on the chaos of the ...

In your English language exam, you’ll be asked to create a piece of narrative or descriptive writing. Narrative writing tells story. This could be made up by you or based on something you’ve ...

Writing for Narrative Matters. We welcome essays from anyone with a health care story, from doctors and nurses, to patients, children, students, and others. The most successful submissions for ...