Mark Twain once noted that “to get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.” I find it hard to believe the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn considered writing a struggle ...

Today is Thursday, so this post is on communication skills. Clear, crisp writing is an important communication skill. Successful people are able to get across their ideas in an easily readable way.

What's the difference between a snapshot and a really good photograph? Sometimes it's a matter of using the correct settings, but many times, the answer is composition. Good composition is one of ...

We’re professors who try to write well. We also try to help our students and colleagues write well. But, really, why bother? Among the standard answers: Because businesses want good writers. Because ...

This article is about how people's brains make sense of what they read. According to Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, author of "The Sense of Style," that topic sentence helped catalyze the ...

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Much of the research on the topic of youth and writing addresses questions of instructional quality and effectiveness from the perspective of administrators, teachers and parents. As noted earlier, ...

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