Participants engaged in inquiry by practicing how to answer questions about a journal article. Inquiry improves writing by helping one learn more about the topic at hand. Practice improves performance only if learners know how to perform a task accurately (Ericsson, Krampe, & Tesch-Romer, 1993) and answering questions trains them on the best way to engage in inquiry. We implemented an inquiry-based writing intervention to show that students who repeatedly answered questions wrote better after the intervention than before and when compared to those who did not participate in the intervention. (Contains 7 footnotes and 1 figure.)