Noah Sheidlower has made thousands writing and editing trivia questions for school competitions. His side gig has helped him improve as a reporter and connect with people from varying backgrounds.

The focus of this research is on the practice of education examination question writing. Educational examinations are tests that are taken by candidates in schools or colleges but that are externally ...

It’s about 3:30 p.m. on a Wednesday in February, and some 700,000 people are anxiously waiting for Scott Rogowsky to show up. As the minutes tick by, their anticipation lights up their smartphone ...

Welcome to a new series, “The Public Writing Life,” about how to write for a popular audience (and get paid for it) when you are part of the academy. There’s plenty of good writing advice out there, ...

As an editor, I try to ask good questions. That’s because I’m a curious person, overflowing with sentences that end in question marks. It’s also because, as Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark once wrote, ...

As another school year returns, large language models (LLMs) present difficult questions around learning, thinking, ...

Who can use the Writing Center? Writers from across the University community, including students, faculty and staff seek feedback from Writing Center consultants. Is there a fee for using the Writing ...

Most of us, when we interview someone, compile a list of questions and go through them one by one. California Radio Personality Colin Marshall suggests that what you should do is the opposite—have a ...

Fourth and seventh graders would no longer take writing tests under the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness as part of a bill awaiting Gov. Greg Abbott's signature. House Bill 3906 also ...