Most adults can remember when taking a writing test meant sitting down with a paper and pencil, then scribbling out sentences and erasing mistakes until the time ran out. For many students today, ...

Usually, I write drafts on a computer because I type faster than I write, and because I can name the document, file it on my computer, and find it afterward. But in class, when I give a freewrite ...

Dick and Jane can’t write very well. That’s the conclusion of the Nation’s Report Card, a federally-mandated writing test of eighth and 12th graders that for the first time was taken on computers. The ...