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 ...

Writers often search for inspiration in the extraordinary: a thrilling adventure, a dramatic romance, or a mysterious event ...

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 ...

In the 2007 movie “Freedom Writers,” Hilary Swank stands in front of a classroom of troubled high schoolers. They need to write down their stories, she tells them. Otherwise, when they die, “no one is ...

Self-reported questionnaire responses are often skewed by people wanting to "say the right thing." For example, few of us would openly admit that we were phony, inauthentic, or Machiavellian when ...