Stanley Fish says, "Some appreciate fine art; others appreciate fine wines. I appreciate fine sentences." I love the sound of that. And chances are if you love language you'll find something ...

Writing is hard, and writing at length is harder. But there are no studies on whether it's better to teach students to write sentences before asking them to write at length. There isn’t much good ...

In 1919, the young E.B. White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr. Strunk ...

When writing novels, essays, papers, reports, etc., there are probably many people who have had the experience of worrying, 'I don't know how to write.' Grace Lavery, an associate professor at the ...

In the progressive campus lab school I attended until sixth grade, my friends and I wrote poetry, celebrated the passage of Title IX, and did “new” math. The boys sewed and cooked in home economics, ...

How can you create a balance between short and long sentences, and how does that change the flow of ideas in your writing? This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences ...

A dependent clause cannot stand alone, though they often contain both a subject and a verb. Where independent clauses express complete thoughts, dependent clauses do not, and left on their own, ...

It’s the subject of heated office debates. It distracts some and disturbs others, and others it drives crazy. It estranges husbands and wives, divides the best of BFFs, and alienates whole generations ...

Online content written in the present tense is considerably more persuasive. Recent research unveils that, although people commonly narrate events in the past tense, conveying the information in the ...