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Have you ever asked yourself why some writing feels very clear and easy to understand, while other writing feels confusing? ...

It’s always a great time to become a better writer—and never more so than right now. Thanks to a generous assortment of free apps, sites, and tools, we wordsmiths have a modern-day treasure trove of ...

I've been excavating in my basement storage room to get rid of stuff I'll never need — and discovering treasures I'll never part with. For example, a letter from my cousin David Herzbrun, written from ...

Photo by NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images On writing, author David Sedaris once said, “You need to do the best that you can do, and then you need to take the best that you can do and ...

I vividly recall when an editor in chief invited me to publish in a well-known journal. Fresh from defending my dissertation, I still grappled with understanding how publishing worked in academia—like ...

Writing essays can be tough. It requires good writing skills, the ability to research well, cite sources properly, organize ideas, and more. If you’re stuck and don’t know where to begin, consider ...

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There’s no better way to build an audience than writing online. Creating the habit of showing up and hitting publish will serve you well for everything in your professional future. But there’s a wrong ...

In building better sentences, participants learn to do what successful authors do and will leave each session with sentence-building tools applicable to almost any kind of writing—academic, business, ...

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The dramatic rise of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has spotlit concerns about the role of technology in exam surveillance — and also in student cheating. Some universities have reported ...