In 2006 when I arrived as president at Harvey Mudd College, a small (800 students) science and engineering college in Claremont, Cal., my first order of business was to lead a strategic ...

Writing frames are the recipes of writing. When students are starting out, there can be many reasons that their writing doesn’t come easily: Sometimes, staring at a blank page is daunting.

Graphic organizers, including writing frames (which are basically more expansive sentence starters) and writing structures (which function more as guides and less as “fill-in-the-blanks”) are ...