“A top-down approach starts with a big picture, breaking it down into smaller components until achieving the objective. A bottom-up approach starts with small, individual components and builds to a ...

When ChatGPT emerged a year and half ago, many professors immediately worried that their students would use it as a substitute for doing their own written assignments — that they’d click a button on a ...

Learning the process approach to writing was the single most important element of my education as a writer. It’s been more than 20 years since Donald M. Murray, columnist, writer, and teacher ...

There are two main publishing paths: traditional publishing and self-publishing. Each has its pros and cons. Books have a timeless nature to them. Long after you’ve retired from active business, your ...

Brett Healey does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Two new books by fiction writers Elizabeth McCracken and Sue Monk Kidd offer different approaches to the craft of writing. McCracken's "A Long Game" is skeptical of cosmic inspiration, focusing ...

The typical approach to the research paper -- the generic term for pretty much all academic writing -- is to assign it as a summative assessment at the end of the semester. Faculty members normally ...

For many writers the hardest part of writing is, well, writing! Having ideas comes easy. What separates authors from the rest of the world is that we are the people who sit down day after day and put ...

Located in Stokes 418S, the BC Writing Center offers one-on-one conferences to BC undergraduates looking for help with their writing and written assignments. Our specialists (see below) are trained ...